I decided to share here the comment that I made in private, so that more people could potentially benefit from it.
on 03/12/2012 20:41 olivier olivier said the following: > Hi all > After upgrading from 9.0-RELEASE to 9.1-PRERELEASE #0 r243679 I'm having > severe problems with NFS sharing of a ZFS volume. nfsd appears to hang at > random times (between once every couple hours to once every two days) while > accessing a ZFS volume, and the only way I have found of resolving the > problem is to reboot. The server console is sometimes still responsive > during the nfsd hang, and I can read and write files to the same ZFS volume > while nfsd is hung. I am pasting below the output of procstat -kk on nfsd, > and details of my pool (nfsstat on the server gets hung when the problem > has started occurring, and does not produce any output). The pool is v28 > and was created from a bunch of volumes attached over Fibre Channel using > the mpt driver. My system has a Supermicro board and 4 AMD Opteron 6274 > CPUs. > > I did not experience any nfsd hangs with 9.0-RELEASE (same machine, > essentially same configuration, same usage pattern). > > I would greatly appreciate any help to resolve this problem! I've looked at the provided data and I do not see anything that implicates ZFS. My rules of the thumb for ZFS hangs: - if there are threads in zio_wait - if you can firm that they are indeed stuck there[*] - if there are no threads in zio_interrupt [*] you have to be sure that a thread just sits in zio_wait and doesn't make any forward progress as opposed to the thread doing a lot of I/O and thus having a high probability of being seen in zio_wait. Then it is most likely that the problem is at the storage level. Most likely it is a bug in storage controller driver which allowed an I/O request to get lost (instead of "errored out" or timed out). `camcontrol tags <disk> -v` can be used to query depth of a queue for each disk and determine the bad one. -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
