> On Nov 5, 2014, at 3:31 PM, Schweiss, Chip via illumos-discuss 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I had a system crash this morning when I/O on a pool was hung with 
> failmode=panic.

What version of OmniOS are you running?

> That was 7 1/2 hours ago and it's at 64%.    I'm going to let it complete so 
> the failure can be analyzed more, but I really need to find a way to 
> significantly speed up the crash dumps.
> 
> This system has 256GB ram and a dedicated dump pool of two 320GB mirrored 
> SATA disks.
> 
> I'm aware of the multi-threaded dump issue so I have these to lines in 
> /etc/system 
> 
> set dump_plat_mincpu=0

That should be the default now.  I can't remember which rev of OmniOS it showed 
up in, but certainly it's in 010 or later.

> It's not clear where the bottleneck is.  I don't think it's the disk.  The 
> disk activity lights are a light flicker, by no means being hit hard.  Unless 
> it's a serial latency issue.
> 
> What would be my best approach to get good dumps from a system like this in 
> minutes, not hours?   Assuming that is possible.

You weren't dumping to the same pool or the same controller where you had the 
I/O hang, were you?

Dan



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