On 6/14/2011 10:48 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >> On Behalf Of Doug Hughes >> >> The glitches that we experience are around the occassional kernel hang >> that requires a machine reset. We have one machine that gets a hard-hang >> about once a month. > > I don't know what kind of hardware or OS Doug used, but I'll just throw this > out there and see what happens... > > A really common mistake for people to make when implementing a ZFS server is > to put the wrong OS on the wrong hardware. Even in the day when Dell sold > solaris as a supported OS on their servers... You can bet Dell servers > didn't get the same kind of treatment and production usage in the Solaris > development& support groups. Consequently, when I bought solaris on a Dell > server, I had the same stability issues Doug described. At first, it was > weekly crashes, until we disabled the on-board broadcom NIC in favor of an > add-on Intel NIC. After that change, it's only monthly crashes. > FWIW - Sun servers in this case, and at least 2 of such have been positively identified as kernel bugs, though we are still tracking one.
(also regarding the early commented about correct checksums. We've had no less than 6 disks replaced in the last 3 years for lying about the data that they are sending back up to the OS, all the while certifying it as valid) _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
