Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Deleting zpool.cache on OI

2013-12-01 Thread Steve Gonczi
Yes, I suggest you follow the guidance given by Jim. Once you have the system up and running, you may want to try to import the pool using an explicit zpool import command. Esp. older versions of zfs had a problem when large files were deleted. The fs mount path tries to perform any interrupte

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Deleting zpool.cache on OI

2013-11-30 Thread Steve Gonczi
I could be wrong but I think he wants to know how to do this on a system that hangs while trying to mount the pool. Your article is should help . Nice job, btw. Steve - Original Message - What do you want to achieve this way? http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Advanced+-+ZFS+Pools+as+

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RAM based devices as ZIL

2013-09-19 Thread Steve Gonczi
For a fast (high ingest rate) system, 4G may not be enough. If your Ram device space is not sufficient to hold all the in-flight Zill blocks, it will fail over, and the Zil will just redirect to your main data pool. This is hard to notice, unless you have an idea of how much data should be f

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] spontaneous reboot with record in fault management

2013-08-26 Thread Steve Gonczi
This looks like an actual pci device error to me. I would dig deeper and look at the errors with fmdump -v -e Steve - Original Message - on occasion i have systems spontaneously rebooting. i can often find entries like this in fault management but it is not particularly helpful. i s

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Inefficient zvol space usage on 4k drives

2013-08-07 Thread Steve Gonczi
Hi Jim, This looks to me more like a rounding-up problem, esp. looking at the bug report quoted. The waste factor increases as the block size goes down. Kind of looks like it fits the ratio of the blocks nominal size, vs its minimal on-disk foot print. For example, compressed blocks are vari

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Destroying unavailable ZFS dataset

2013-06-02 Thread Steve Gonczi
Ok.. . I am still a bit unclear about what you are trying to accomplish. I am puzzled by your "jail drive" reference. I think you are trying to re-cycle an ssd that was part of another pool earlier. You do not care about preserving any of the information that is still on this ssd, except that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Destroying unavailable ZFS dataset

2013-06-01 Thread Steve Gonczi
Explaining your problem in specific terms would be helpful, (.e.g.: mention the commands you use to demonstrate the problem). "an old system drive seems to have a memory..." is surely a colorful way of describing your issue, but unfortunately does not make it clear what the problem exactly is.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] COMSTAR qlt dropping link and resetting

2012-05-20 Thread Steve Gonczi
At one time I posted a dtrace script to track txg open times. Look for it in the forum archives or I can repost it .Some Other folks Posted Similar Scripts ... I would not be surprised to find a txg being open for an unusually long time when the problem happens. That would Indicate a problem i

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to /etc on a pool from another system?

2012-03-19 Thread Steve Gonczi
I am reading you mail as "I connect the disk array from a dismantled OI 148 system to another computer and..." /etc is typically on your root pool (ie. rpool). Note that the rpool is often on a different device, perhaps a flash drive. You may, or may not have connected this to the "new" moth

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How do I debug this?

2012-02-08 Thread Steve Gonczi
It is long shot, but check how much space you have where your core dumps supposed to go. Your root pool may have limited space. Also, the visibility of core dumps has security implications, they could be inaccessible unless you are looking as root. Steve - Original Message - Thank

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Replacing OI 151 ssh with OpenSSH 5.9?

2012-01-18 Thread Steve Gonczi
Take a look at README.altprivsep in usr/src/cmd/ssh. Seems like the Solaris team significantly changed how privilege separation works. Looking at the Illumos hg log (which contains the tail end of the Osol hg log) the Sun ssh code was periodically resynced with openssh. The last resync visibl

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZIL write cache performance

2012-01-13 Thread Steve Gonczi
ool (or is this wrong?) > > Thanks for the heads up about the bug and pending fix.. I'll take a look. > > -Matt. > > On 13/01/2012, at 9:34 AM, Steve Gonczi wrote: > >> Hi Matt, >> >> The ZIL is not a performance enhancer. (This is a common mis

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZIL write cache performance

2012-01-12 Thread Steve Gonczi
Hi Matt, The ZIL is not a performance enhancer. (This is a common misunderstanding, people sometimes view the ZIL as a write cache) . It is a way to simulate "sync" semantics on files where you really need that, instead of the coarser ganularity guarantee that zfs gives you without it. (txg

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] io_151 kernel lock up

2011-12-05 Thread Steve Gonczi
Your last line of vmstat shows a high number of context switches and interrupts . Most of the time is accounted for in the idle time column. mpstat output would probably be more useful, perhaps you have lock contention. /sG/ - Original Message - Hi! I encounter the following pr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS stalls with oi_151?

2011-10-21 Thread Steve Gonczi
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 wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've got a bit of a ZFS problem: > All of a sudden, and it doe

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with high cpu load (oi_151a)

2011-10-20 Thread Steve Gonczi
Here is something to check: Pop into the debugger ( mdb -k) and see what AcpiDbgLevel's current setting is. E.g: AcpiDbgLevel/x The default setting is 3. If its something higher, that would explain the high incidence of Acpi trace/debug calls. To exit the debugger type $q or ::quit S

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with high cpu load (oi_151a)

2011-10-20 Thread Steve Gonczi
i86_mwait is the idle function the cpu is executing when it has nothing else to do. Basically it sleeps inside of that function. Lockstat based profiling just samples what is on cpu, so idle time shows up as some form of mwait, depending on how the bios is configured. Steve - Original

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with high cpu load (oi_151a)

2011-10-20 Thread Steve Gonczi
Your lockstat output fingers Acpi debug tracing functions. I wonder why these are running in the first place. Steve - Original Message - Hello all, I have a machine here at my home running OpenIndiana oi_151a, which serves as a NAS on my home network.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to troubleshoot failing hardware causing hoot hangs

2011-09-14 Thread Steve Gonczi
Perhaps the focus should be amping up hald logging, so that if and when the problem happens you have some info to look at. The hald man page has examples on how to do this via svccfg. Steve - Original Message - Hi Steve, thanks a lot for your help! The problem is that the issues tha

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to troubleshoot failing hardware causing hoot hangs

2011-09-14 Thread Steve Gonczi
Hello, Looking at the Hald source: ( usr/src/cmd/hal/hald /hald.c) Error 95 is coming from a script, ti is just informing you that a fatal error occurred. The informative error code is the "2". This tells you that hald forked a child process, and it timed out waiting for the child process

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "init 6/reboot" reboots the OS but not the hardware

2011-08-04 Thread Steve Gonczi
You need remote reset or remote power cycle capability. An ILOM console, if your hardware has support for it would provide this. ILOM is common on most server class hardware ( Sun servers certainly have it, so do Supermicro boards). Failing that, there are inexpensive remote power cycle po

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Kernel Panic installing openindiana on a HP BL460c G1

2011-06-27 Thread Steve Gonczi
Hello, This should be analyzed and root caused. A ::stack woudl be useful to see the call parameters. Without disassembling zio_buf_alloc() I can only guess that the mutex_enter you see crashing is really in kmem_cache_alloc() If that proves to be the case, I would verify the offset of cc_l

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle removes 32bit x86 cpu support for solaris 11 will OI do same?

2011-06-24 Thread Steve Gonczi
uld use more than 4GB total; just not > individually. > > Mike > > > On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 15:58 +, Steve Gonczi wrote: > >> For Intel CPUs, 32 bit code is certainly more compact , and in some cases >> arguably faster than 64 bit code. (say, comparing the sa

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle removes 32bit x86 cpu support for solaris 11 will OI do same?

2011-06-24 Thread Steve Gonczi
For Intel CPUs, 32 bit code is certainly more compact , and in some cases arguably faster than 64 bit code. (say, comparing the same code on the same machine compiled 32 and 64 bit) But, newer cpu silicon tends to make performance improvements in many ways (e.g locating more supporting circui

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] PANIC "vmem_hash_delete(): bad free" all versions > svn_111

2011-05-14 Thread Steve Gonczi
man dumpadm.. You have to enable crash dumps, and select a location where you have some room to save them. When you just run dumpadm it will tell you what your current settings are. If you do not have crashdumps enabled, you may be able to save the last crashdump by running "savecore /some/l

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] PANIC "vmem_hash_delete(): bad free" all versions > svn_111

2011-05-14 Thread Steve Gonczi
Hi Gabriel, The immediate cause of this panic is an attempt to free an address==null. The intersting part (how this comes about), is hard to figure out without more info. At the very minimum, a stack (and some amount of luck), ideally a crash dump would be necessary. This brings into foc

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-13 Thread Steve Gonczi
Hi Dan, If you monitor the Illumos checkins, you will see that there is a fair amount of activity going on. I am unsure how this correlates with any binary release schedule but at least at the OS source code level, things are surely being fixed. /sG/ - "Dan Swartzendruber" wrote:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Monitoring OI with Zenoss

2011-01-28 Thread Steve Gonczi
Check out chime -:::-sG-:::- On Jan 27, 2011, at 23:28, WK wrote: > I am experimenting with using Zenoss to monitor OI 148, and I was wondering > if anyone had any advice on configuring SNMP for this purpose? Zenoss is > showing the uptime, but not much more. On my Linux machines, it shows ne

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Enable samba

2011-01-19 Thread Steve Gonczi
Just a Wild guess you may have The kernel cifs occupying The Smb Ports already Make sure cifs Is shut off -:::-sG-:::- On Jan 19, 2011, at 11:43, Paul Johnston wrote: > Hi > > I have SunOS openindiana 5.11 oi_148 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris and wanted to > try it for samba > > However > paulj@