Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris Based Systems Lock Up - Possibly ZFS/memory related?

2011-11-08 Thread Lachlan Mulcahy
Hi All, On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Lachlan Mulcahy lmulc...@marinsoftware.comwrote: Now trying another suggestion sent to me by a direct poster: * Recommendation from Sun (Oracle) to work around a bug: * 6958068 - Nehalem deeper C-states cause erratic scheduling behavior

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris Based Systems Lock Up - Possibly ZFS/memory related?

2011-11-03 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Lachlan Mulcahy I have been having issues with Solaris kernel based systems locking up and am wondering if anyone else has observed a similar symptom before. ... Dell R710 / 80G Memory

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris Based Systems Lock Up - Possibly ZFS/memory related?

2011-11-03 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Lachlan Mulcahy *       Recommendation from Sun (Oracle) to work around a bug: *       6958068 - Nehalem deeper C-states cause erratic scheduling behavior set idle_cpu_prefer_mwait = 0 set

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris Based Systems Lock Up - Possibly ZFS/memory related?

2011-11-03 Thread Lachlan Mulcahy
Hi Edward, Thanks for your input. Please see http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2010-November/046189.html But I'll need to expand upon this a little more here: When we bought that system, solaris was a supported os on the R710. We paid for oracle gold support (or whatever

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris Based Systems Lock Up - Possibly ZFS/memory related?

2011-11-02 Thread Lachlan Mulcahy
Hi All, No joy.. the system seized up again within a few hours of coming back up. Now trying another suggestion sent to me by a direct poster: * Recommendation from Sun (Oracle) to work around a bug: * 6958068 - Nehalem deeper C-states cause erratic scheduling behavior set

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris Based Systems Lock Up - Possibly ZFS/memory related?

2011-10-31 Thread Marion Hakanson
lmulc...@marinsoftware.com said: . . . The MySQL server is: Dell R710 / 80G Memory with two daisy chained MD1220 disk arrays - 22 Disks each - 600GB 10k RPM SAS Drives Storage Controller: LSI, Inc. 1068E (JBOD) I have also seen similar symptoms on systems with MD1000 disk arrays containing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris Based Systems Lock Up - Possibly ZFS/memory related?

2011-10-31 Thread Lachlan Mulcahy
Hi Marion, Thanks for your swifty reply! Have you got the latest firmware on your LSI 1068E HBA's? These have been known to have lockups/timeouts when used with SAS expanders (disk enclosures) with incompatible firmware revisions, and/or with older mpt drivers. I'll need to check that out

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris Based Systems Lock Up - Possibly ZFS/memory related?

2011-10-31 Thread Lachlan Mulcahy
Hi All/Marion, A small update... known to have lockups/timeouts when used with SAS expanders (disk enclosures) with incompatible firmware revisions, and/or with older mpt drivers. I'll need to check that out -- I'm 90% sure that these are fresh out of box HBAs. Will try an upgrade there

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris Based Systems Lock Up - Possibly ZFS/memory related?

2011-10-31 Thread Lachlan Mulcahy
Hi All, We did not have the latest firmware on the HBA - through a lot of pain I managed to boot into an MS-DOS disk and run the firmware update. We're now running the latest on this card from the LSI.com website. (both HBA BIOS and Firmware) No joy.. the system seized up again within a few

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris Based Systems Lock Up - Possibly ZFS/memory related?

2011-10-31 Thread Richard Elling
FWIW, we recommend disabling C-states in the BIOS for NexentaStor systems. C-states are evil. -- richard On Oct 31, 2011, at 9:46 PM, Lachlan Mulcahy wrote: Hi All, We did not have the latest firmware on the HBA - through a lot of pain I managed to boot into an MS-DOS disk and run the