Hi, Wes Morgan wrote: > On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, Matt Simerson wrote: > > > The Areca cards do NOT have the cache enabled by default. I > ordered the > > optional battery and RAM upgrade for my collection of > 1231ML cards. Even with > > the BBWC, the cache is not enabled by default. I had to go > out of my way to > > enable it, on every single controller. > > Are you using these areca cards successfully with large > arrays? I found a > 1680i card for a decent price and installed it this weekend, > but since > then I'm seeing the raidz2 pool that it's running hang so > frequently that > I can't even trust using it. The hangs occur in both 7-stable and > 8-current with the new ZFS patch. Same exact settings that > have been rock > solid for me before now don't want to work at all. The drives > are just set > as JBOD -- the controller actually defaulted to this, so I > didn't have to > make any real changes in the BIOS. > > Any tips on your setup? Did you have any similar problems?
I am seeing I/O related lockups on 7.1-PRE with an Areca ARC-1220 controller and eight drives in a RAID-6 array. The same hardware works fine with 6.3. When I run gstat while it is happening I see I/O performance drop and the time to service each write (ms/w) goes up, and then suddenly goes back down to a sensible value. I have seen it get to about 22000ms. The system is essentially unusable for writes, which limits the utility a bit. Reads seem fine. Is this similar to the behaviour you saw? Thanks, Jan Mikkelsen _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
