Re: 3Ware 9000 series hangs under load

Jo Rhett wrote: The driver logs all useful stuff, and the SEC logfile surfer does a good job of notifying you quickly. I can send you an SEC configuration for that if you want. On Nov 16, 2008, at 10:06 PM, Oliver Lehmann wrote: Hm - what is SEC? Simple Event Correlator

Re: 3Ware 9000 series hangs under load

Philip Murray wrote: Anyway, I stopped running 3dmd (or 3dm2 I think it's called now) to monitor it, and the crashes went away. It's had hundreds of days uptime since. We have never used 3dm2, and the 9500 units have been rock solid for us. I've never been game enough to try newer versions

Re: 3Ware 9000 series hangs under load

On Nov 12, 2008, at 12:37 PM, Philip Murray wrote: I just installed sysutils/tw_cli from ports, and it sets up some 'periodic' scripts for you. To be precise it puts 407.status-3ware- raid in /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily Don't use that. It's a very old version of the code. Use the

Re: 3Ware 9000 series hangs under load

Jo Rhett wrote: The driver logs all useful stuff, and the SEC logfile surfer does a good job of notifying you quickly. I can send you an SEC configuration for that if you want. Hm - what is SEC? -- Oliver Lehmann http://www.pofo.de/ http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/

Re: 3Ware 9000 series hangs under load

On 13/11/2008, at 8:43 AM, Oliver Lehmann wrote: Philip Murray wrote: I used to get this (FreeBSD 6.1 days) all the time, the controller would just lock up almost on a daily basis (and have to wait for the fsck 4 out of 24 hours in the day). Anyway, I stopped running 3dmd (or 3dm2 I think

Re: 3Ware 9000 series hangs under load

Philip Murray wrote: I used to get this (FreeBSD 6.1 days) all the time, the controller would just lock up almost on a daily basis (and have to wait for the fsck 4 out of 24 hours in the day). Anyway, I stopped running 3dmd (or 3dm2 I think it's called now) to monitor it, and the

Re: 3Ware 9000 series hangs under load

On Wednesday 29 October 2008 12:07:28 pm Oliver Lehmann wrote: Hi, I've problems with my 3ware controller. Havingg heavy I/O load (e.g. running 40 port builds the day over with tinderbox which involves un-taring a whole FreeBSD tree 40 times), my system hangs with the well known

Re: 3Ware 9000 series hangs under load

Hi Philip, Philip Murray wrote: Might not be your problem, but it's worth a shot if all else fails. I've tried this, and the system still hangs up :( I'll move on with SMP/single CPU tests -- Oliver Lehmann http://www.pofo.de/ http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/

Re: 3Ware 9000 series hangs under load

Scott Long wrote: or put a spare ATA drive in the chassis and set it up as a dump partition, then get a crashdump of the system when it gets into this state. The system is not panicing itself so I've tried debugging some time ago with KDB by panicing it by hand after it got stuck again. Here

Re: 3Ware 9000 series hangs under load

Oliver Lehmann wrote: Hi, I've problems with my 3ware controller. Havingg heavy I/O load (e.g. running 40 port builds the day over with tinderbox which involves un-taring a whole FreeBSD tree 40 times), my system hangs with the well known swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno:

3Ware 9000 series hangs under load

Hi, I've problems with my 3ware controller. Havingg heavy I/O load (e.g. running 40 port builds the day over with tinderbox which involves un-taring a whole FreeBSD tree 40 times), my system hangs with the well known swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 2, size: 4096 swap_pager:

Re: 3Ware 9000 series hangs under load

On 30/10/2008, at 5:07 AM, Oliver Lehmann wrote: Hi, I've problems with my 3ware controller. Havingg heavy I/O load (e.g. running 40 port builds the day over with tinderbox which involves un-taring a whole FreeBSD tree 40 times), my system hangs with the well known swap_pager: indefinite