Re: Kernel / iscsi problem under high load

2009-04-03 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 3 Apr 2009 at 9:27, I wrote: Very interesting: Out SAN system allows only 2048 GB of storage per LUN. ---^Our Lookinginto the SCSI protocol, it seems there is a 32bit number of blocks (512Bytes) to count the LUN capacity. Thus roughly 4Gig times 0.4kB makes 2TB. I

Re: Kernel / iscsi problem under high load

2009-04-03 Thread Gonçalo Borges
Hi... [r...@core26 ~]# multipath -ll sda: checker msg is rdac checker reports path is down iscsi06-apoio1 (3600a0b80003ad1e50f2e49ae6d3e) dm-0 IBM,VirtualDisk [size=2.7T][features=1 queue_if_no_path][hwhandler=0] Very interesting: Out SAN system allows only 2048 GB of storage per

Re: Kernel / iscsi problem under high load

2009-04-03 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 3 Apr 2009 at 11:42, Gonçalo Borges wrote: [...] Is this 2048 GB limit imposed on iSCSI? Because there is nothing in SCSI itlself which forces you to this limit... Nowadays, you could have huge partitions (if you do GPT partitions with PARTED)... So, if there is a limit, it should come

Re: Kernel / iscsi problem under high load

2009-04-03 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 10:42:31AM +0100, Gonçalo Borges wrote: Sure.. but the normal rdac handler (that comes with the kernel) doesn't spit those errors. It looks as a proprietary module. If this is the proprietary module, what happens when you use the one that comes with the

Re: Kernel / iscsi problem under high load

2009-04-02 Thread Mike Christie
Gonçalo Borges wrote: Dear open-iscsi gurus... I'm working with an IBM DS3300 storage system accessible via open- iscsi technology to many different clients. To give you the proper context before describing my problem, I'll introduce my setup: *** The target setup *** - IBM DS3300

Re: Kernel / iscsi problem under high load

2009-04-02 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek
Apr 1 11:44:13 core26 kernel: 122 [RAIDarray.mpp]iscsi06:1:0:1 Controller IO time expired. Delta 43701 secs Apr 1 11:44:13 core26 kernel: 497 [RAIDarray.mpp]iscsi06:1:0:1 Failed controller to 0. retry. vcmnd SN 458970 pdev H6:C0:T0:L1 0x00/0x00/0x00 0x0002 mpp_status:2 What is the

Re: Kernel / iscsi problem under high load

2009-04-02 Thread Gonçalo Borges
Hi... First of all, thanks for the reply. After recovering my system, I tried to perform the tests you ask for It might be good to know what scsiinfo (or similar) says about the size of the LUN at the start of yout tests. Likewise, show what fdisk -l tells about the partitions, and

Re: Kernel / iscsi problem under high load

2009-04-02 Thread Gonçalo Borges
Apr 1 11:44:13 core26 kernel: 122 [RAIDarray.mpp]iscsi06:1:0:1 Controller IO time expired. Delta 43701 secs Apr 1 11:44:13 core26 kernel: 497 [RAIDarray.mpp]iscsi06:1:0:1 Failed controller to 0. retry. vcmnd SN 458970 pdev H6:C0:T0:L1 0x00/0x00/0x00 0x0002 mpp_status:2 What is

Re: Kernel / iscsi problem under high load

2009-04-02 Thread Gonçalo Borges
Where did you get this kernel? Is it from xen or from Red Hat? If it is from Red Hat? I have not seen some of the error messages in your log in the upstream or RHEL code. This is a xen kernel but distributed in the Scientific Linux official releases. Check, for example: