6 disk raid 10 15000 rpm array (2 mirroring x 3 striping) with a raid card which can handle a maximum of 8 disks. It didn’t last forever.
mfii0 at pci12 dev 0 function 0 "Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS2208" rev 0x05: msi mfii0: "LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i", firmware 23.28.0-0010, 1024MB cache scsibus2 at mfii0: 64 targets sd0 at scsibus2 targ 0 lun 0: <LSI, MR9271-8i, 3.40> naa.600605b00902fb50217c572a11e3e137 sd0: 418464MB, 512 bytes/sector, 857014272 sectors scsibus3 at mfii0: 256 targets ppb11 at pci7 dev 9 function 0 "Intel X58 PCIE" rev 0x22: msi pci13 at ppb11 bus 135 "Intel X58 IOxAPIC" rev 0x22 at pci7 dev 19 function 0 not configured "Intel X58 Misc" rev 0x22 at pci7 dev 20 function 0 not configured "Intel X58 GPIO" rev 0x22 at pci7 dev 20 function 1 not configured "Intel X58 RAS" rev 0x22 at pci7 dev 20 function 2 not configured "Intel X58 Throttle" rev 0x22 at pci7 dev 20 function 3 not configured "Intel X58 QuickData" rev 0x22 at pci7 dev 22 function 0 not configured "Intel X58 QuickData" rev 0x22 at pci7 dev 22 function 1 not configured "Intel X58 QuickData" rev 0x22 at pci7 dev 22 function 2 not configured "Intel X58 QuickData" rev 0x22 at pci7 dev 22 function 3 not configured "Intel X58 QuickData" rev 0x22 at pci7 dev 22 function 4 not configured "Intel X58 QuickData" rev 0x22 at pci7 dev 22 function 5 not configured "Intel X58 QuickData" rev 0x22 at pci7 dev 22 function 6 not configured "Intel X58 QuickData" rev 0x22 at pci7 dev 22 function 7 not configured vmm0 at mainbus0: VMX/EPT dt: 445 probes vscsi0 at root scsibus4 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus5 at softraid0: 256 targets sd1 at scsibus5 targ 1 lun 0: <OPENBSD, SR CRYPTO, 006> sd1: 418458MB, 512 bytes/sector, 857002898 sectors sd2 at scsibus1 targ 5 lun 0: <ATA, 3E128-TS2-550B01, UI39> naa.5001173100147bc4 sd2: 95367MB, 512 bytes/sector, 195312501 sectors sd3 at scsibus1 targ 6 lun 0: <ATA, 3E128-TS2-550B01, UI39> naa.5001173100146d54 sd3: 95367MB, 512 bytes/sector, 195312501 sectors sd4 at scsibus1 targ 7 lun 0: <ATA, 3E128-TS2-550B01, UI39> naa.50011731001432cc sd4: 95367MB, 512 bytes/sector, 195312501 sectors sd5 at scsibus1 targ 8 lun 0: <ATA, 3E128-TS2-550B01, UI39> naa.500117310014346c sd5: 95367MB, 512 bytes/sector, 195312501 sectors disklabels not read: root on sd1a (7f4c2a49b672064f.a) swap on sd1b dump on sd1b radeondrm0: CAICOS radeondrm0: 1920x1080, 32bpp wsdisplay0 at radeondrm0 mux 1: console (std, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0 wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (std, vt100 emulation) On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 4:22 AM Crystal Kolipe <kolip...@exoticsilicon.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 01, 2022 at 12:01:28AM -0600, Luke Small wrote: > > The lights on my server which shows that the disks are busy were on and > not > > just flashing and I looked at top and usually it???s because security is > > running, but this time NOTHING! I even killed Firefox and by far the > > busiest thing on there was top! pftop didn???t seem especially busy > either! > > From the extremely limited information you've given, it's hard to diagnose > the problem. > > In future, please include the output of dmesg and the output of relevant > commands in problem reports. This answers questions such as: how many > disks are in this server? Are they part of an array? > > Did the output from top show a process with low or zero cpu usage, but > stuck in the biowait state? > > This can happen, for example, if you have a bad or failing data cable from > the disk to the motherboard. It can also happen with some SSDs, likely due > to the firmware doing some kind of internal management of the flash memory. > -- -Luke
