If you are concerned about the availability maybe move it to at least a stable opensolaris release, running of SXCE in production seems to be asking for trouble
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Matt Harrison < iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com> wrote: > Matt Harrison wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> We've got a filer built on consumer hardware running SXCE snv_97, holding >> a small (1.4TB) raidz array. It's been going great for the last 6 months or >> so, but recently its started misbehaving. >> >> We use in-kernel CIFS for most of our needs and it works perfectly when >> playing media or mounting backed-up CD images. The problem comes when we try >> to explicitly copy something from it. >> >> When you actually try a direct copy via CIFS, HTTP, SSH or FTP, the >> transfer has about a 70% chance it will hang the machine. The larger the >> file, the more probable it is. >> >> I have no idea how to start investigating this as the network is >> inaccessible, the console is frozen and there are no hints left behind in >> the logs. >> >> My only way to recover the server is to shutdown (with the soft-off button >> on the case) and bootup. I can tell the machine isn't totally hung as it >> will apparently do a proper shutdown procedure. >> >> We're really out of ideas and worried that there could be a problem with >> our raidz array, even though there are no errors logged concerning it. As >> far as we can tell, there is no problem with any data (yet), just the system >> itself. >> >> Any ideas how to go about investigating this further? >> > > I hate to pester but I'm surprised no-one has any ideas on this. We are > constantly worried about what the side-effects of the server hanging might > be, and of course it is decreasing the availability of our data. > > Thanks > > Matt > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org >
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