Are you running with dedup enabled? If the box is still responsive, try to generate a thread stack listing e.g: echo "::threadlist -v" > mdb -k > /tmp/threads.txt
Steve On Oct 21, 2011, at 4:16, Tommy Eriksen <t...@rackhosting.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've got a bit of a ZFS problem: > All of a sudden, and it doesn't seem related to load or anything, the system > will stop writing to the disks in my storage pool. No error messages are > logged (that I can find anyway), nothing in dmesg, messages or the likes. > > ZFS stalls, a simple snapshot command (or the likes) just hangs indefinitely > and can't be stopped with ctrl+c or kill -9. > > Today, the stall happened after I had been running 2 VMs on each (running on > vsphere5 connecting via iscsi) running iozone -s 200G (just to generate a > bunch of load). Happily, this morning, I saw that they were still running > without problem and stopped them. Then, when asking vSphere to delete the > VMs, all write I/O stalled. A bit too much irony for me :) > > However, and this puzzled me, everything else seems to run perfectly, even up > to zfs writing new data on the l2arc devices while data is read. > > Boxes (2 of the same) are: > Supermicro based, 24 bay chassis > 2*X5645 Xeon > 48gigs of RAM > 3*LSI2008 controllers coupled to > 20 Seagate Constellation ES 3TB SATA > 2 Intel 600GB SSD > 2 Intel 311 20GB SSD > > 18 of the 3TB drives are set up in mirrored vdevs, the last 2 are spares. > > Running oi_151a (trying a downgrade to 148 today, I think, since I have 5 or > so boxes running without problems on 148, but both my 151a are playing up). > > /etc/system variables: > set zfs:zfs_vdev_max_pending = 4 > set zfs:l2arc_noprefetch = 0 > set zfs:zfs_vdev_cache_size = 0 > > > I can write to a (spare) disk on the same controller without errors, so I > take it its not a general I/O stall on the controller: > root@zfsnas3:/var/adm# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdsk/c8t5000C50035DE14FAd0s0 > bs=1M > ^C1640+0 records in > 1640+0 records out > 1719664640 bytes (1.7 GB) copied, 11.131 s, 154 MB/s > > iostat reported - note no writes to any of the other drives. All writes just > stall. > > extended device statistics ---- errors --- > r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b s/w h/w trn tot > device > 3631.6 167.2 14505.5 152337.1 0.0 2.2 0.0 0.6 0 157 0 0 0 > 0 c8 > 109.0 0.8 472.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 0 3 0 0 0 0 > c8t5000C50035B922CCd0 > 143.0 0.8 567.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.5 0 3 0 0 0 0 > c8t5000C50035CA8A5Cd0 > 89.6 0.8 414.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.6 0 2 0 0 0 0 > c8t5000C50035CAB258d0 > 95.8 0.8 443.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 0 2 0 0 0 0 > c8t5000C50035DE3DEBd0 > 144.8 0.8 626.4 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.6 0 4 0 0 0 0 > c8t5000C50035BE1945d0 > 134.0 0.8 505.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.4 0 3 0 0 0 0 > c8t5000C50035DDB02Ed0 > 1.0 0.4 3.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 > c8t5000C50035DE0414d0 > 107.8 0.8 461.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0 2 0 0 0 0 > c8t5000C50035D40D15d0 > 117.2 0.8 516.5 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.5 0 3 0 0 0 0 > c8t5000C50035DE0C86d0 > 64.2 0.8 261.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.6 0 2 0 0 0 0 > c8t5000C50035DD6044d0 > 2.0 0.8 6.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 > c8t5001517959582943d0 > 2.0 0.8 6.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 > c8t5001517959582691d0 > 109.8 0.8 423.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0 2 0 0 0 0 > c8t5000C50035C13A6Bd0 > 765.0 0.8 3070.9 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.2 0 7 0 0 0 0 > c8t5001517959699FE0d0 > 1.0 149.2 3.4 152337.1 0.0 1.0 0.0 6.5 0 97 0 0 0 0 > c8t5000C50035DE14FAd0 > 210.4 0.8 775.4 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.4 0 3 0 0 0 0 > c8t5000C50035CA1E58d0 > 689.4 0.8 2776.6 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.2 0 7 0 0 0 0 > c8t50015179596A8717d0 > 108.6 0.8 430.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.4 0 2 0 0 0 0 > c8t5000C50035CBD12Ad0 > 165.6 0.8 561.5 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.4 0 3 0 0 0 0 > c8t5000C50035CA90DDd0 > 164.4 0.8 578.5 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.4 0 4 0 0 0 0 > c8t5000C50035DDFC34d0 > 125.6 0.8 477.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.4 0 2 0 0 0 0 > c8t5000C50035DE2AD3d0 > 93.2 0.8 371.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.4 0 2 0 0 0 0 > c8t5000C50035B94C40d0 > 113.2 0.8 445.3 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.5 0 3 0 0 0 0 > c8t5000C50035BA02AEd0 > 75.4 0.8 304.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.4 0 2 0 0 0 0 > c8t5000C50035DDA579d0 > > > …Is anyone else seeing similar? > > Thanks a lot, > Tommy > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss