[OpenIndiana-discuss] General ZFS questions (Michelle Knight)

[Daniel Kjar]

  I get that kind of lockup when a NFS share fails.

On 01/14/11 03:01 AM, Michelle Knight wrote:
> Another freeze. The "backup" zfs mirror set was destroyed and re-created. Both
> drives were connected via USB and the copy started again.
>
> About an hour and a half again, and the machine freezes. Interestingly, a
> terminal running TOP is still refreshing.
>
> I'm going to re-install the PCI SATA card and see what happens ... take the
> USB out of the configuration.
>
> Incidentally, to the power concerns, the machine was originally built this way
> in Feb 2010 using OpenSolaris and has run before, using this same operation.
> The motherboard was changed in December and I don't think that power is going
> to be the root of this problem, but I've identified a new PSU to buy next
> month.
>
> I'll update with the results of not using the USB ports a bit later. I'm going
> to run a memory check as well.
>
>
> last pid:  1227;  load avg:  0.00,  0.12,  0.26;  up 0+01:38:13
> 07:56:39
> 82 processes: 81 sleeping, 1 on cpu
> CPU states: 99.7% idle,  0.1% user,  0.3% kernel,  0.0% iowait,  0.0% swap
> Kernel: 714 ctxsw, 990 intr, 100 syscall
> Memory: 3959M phys mem, 410M free mem, 1979M total swap, 1979M free swap
>
>     PID USERNAME NLWP PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    TIME    CPU COMMAND
>    1049 gdm         1  59    0   99M   31M sleep    0:06  0.03% gdm-simple-gree
>    1208 root        1  49    0 4244K 2692K cpu/1    0:01  0.01% top
>     985 root        3  59    0  102M   51M sleep    0:05  0.01% Xorg
>     813 daemon      9  59    0   11M 3764K sleep    0:00  0.00% idmapd
>     820 root       33  59    0   14M 9264K sleep    0:01  0.00% smbd
>    1050 gdm         1  59    0   87M   18M sleep    0:00  0.00% gnome-power-man
>    1196 mich        1  59    0   13M 5288K sleep    0:00  0.00% sshd
>     911 root        1  59    0 6080K 2044K sleep    0:00  0.00% sendmail
>     890 root       26  59    0   29M   16M sleep    0:00  0.00% fmd
>      11 root       20  59    0   14M   12M sleep    0:05  0.00% svc.configd
>      44 netcfg      5  59    0 4348K 3072K sleep    0:00  0.00% netcfgd
>     712 root        6  59    0   11M 4664K sleep    0:00  0.00% devfsadm
>       9 root       13  59    0   19M   11M sleep    0:01  0.00% svc.startd
>     337 root        1  59    0 8312K 1616K sleep    0:00  0.00% dhcpagent
>    1132 admin       1  59    0   14M 6000K sleep    1:57  0.00% sshd
>    1176 root        1  59    0   15M 3596K sleep    1:36  0.00% cp
>    1135 admin       1  59    0   14M 3384K sleep    0:32  0.00% sshd
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Dr. Daniel Kjar
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