Re: [osol-discuss] worrying hangs
Che Kristo wrote: If you are concerned about the availability maybe move it to at least a stable opensolaris release, running of SXCE in production seems to be asking for trouble Thanks for the push, I forced myself to make time and reinstalled the machine with 2009.06. I managed to get the pool back, setup CIFS and get everything going again in a couple of hours. So far I haven't managed to make the machine hang again, but I'll keep trying. I guess it could have been a buggy driver or something that didn't like my disks/controller. Fingers crossed it's all over. Thanks Matt ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] worrying hangs
Good to hear :) lets hope it wasnt hardware related. On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:44 AM, Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Che Kristo wrote: If you are concerned about the availability maybe move it to at least a stable opensolaris release, running of SXCE in production seems to be asking for trouble Thanks for the push, I forced myself to make time and reinstalled the machine with 2009.06. I managed to get the pool back, setup CIFS and get everything going again in a couple of hours. So far I haven't managed to make the machine hang again, but I'll keep trying. I guess it could have been a buggy driver or something that didn't like my disks/controller. Fingers crossed it's all over. Thanks Matt ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] worrying hangs
If you are concerned about the availability maybe move it to at least a stable opensolaris release, running of SXCE in production seems to be asking for trouble On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Matt Harrison wrote: Hi all, We've got a filer built on consumer hardware running SXCE snv_97, holding a small (1.4TB) raidz array. It's been going great for the last 6 months or so, but recently its started misbehaving. We use in-kernel CIFS for most of our needs and it works perfectly when playing media or mounting backed-up CD images. The problem comes when we try to explicitly copy something from it. When you actually try a direct copy via CIFS, HTTP, SSH or FTP, the transfer has about a 70% chance it will hang the machine. The larger the file, the more probable it is. I have no idea how to start investigating this as the network is inaccessible, the console is frozen and there are no hints left behind in the logs. My only way to recover the server is to shutdown (with the soft-off button on the case) and bootup. I can tell the machine isn't totally hung as it will apparently do a proper shutdown procedure. We're really out of ideas and worried that there could be a problem with our raidz array, even though there are no errors logged concerning it. As far as we can tell, there is no problem with any data (yet), just the system itself. Any ideas how to go about investigating this further? I hate to pester but I'm surprised no-one has any ideas on this. We are constantly worried about what the side-effects of the server hanging might be, and of course it is decreasing the availability of our data. Thanks Matt ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] worrying hangs
Che Kristo wrote: If you are concerned about the availability maybe move it to at least a stable opensolaris release, running of SXCE in production seems to be asking for trouble Thanks for the reply. I am aware that SXCE isn't the best release. I've been planning a move to 2009.06, but I thought if this is a hardware problem, then I should fix that first. I'll try exporting the data pool, installing 2009.06 onto the root disk and re-importing. I understand this should preserve the data perfectly. Of course, that should provide a more stable platform and I'll report back if I'm still having the hangs. Thanks ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
