Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-22 Thread Richard Elling
On May 21, 2010, at 7:03 PM, Brandon High wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Thomas Burgess wrote: >> shouldn't the newer server have LESS load? >> Please forgive my ubernoobness. > > Depends on what it's doing! > > Load average is really how many process are waiting to run, so it's > no

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-22 Thread Thomas Burgess
i only care about the most recent snapshot, as this is a growing video collection. i do have snapshots, but i only keep them for when/if i accidently delete something, or rename something wrong. On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Brandon High wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Thomas Bur

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-22 Thread Brandon High
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Thomas Burgess wrote: > yah, it seems that rsync is faster for what i need anywaysat least right > now... If you don't have snapshots you want to keep in the new copy, then probably... -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-22 Thread Thomas Burgess
yah, unfortunately this is the first send. i'm trying to send 9 TB of data. It really sucks because i was at 6 TB when it lost power On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Brandon High wrote: > You can "resume" a send if the destination has a snapshot in common with > the source. If you don't, t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-21 Thread Brandon High
You can "resume" a send if the destination has a snapshot in common with the source. If you don't, there's nothing you can do. It probably taking a while to restart because the sends that were interrupted need to be rolled back. Sent from my Nexus One. On May 21, 2010 9:44 PM, "Thomas Burgess"

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-21 Thread Thomas Burgess
well it wasn't. it was running pretty slow. i had one "really big" filesystemwith rsync i'm able to do multiple streams and it's moving much faster On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Ian Collins wrote: > On 05/22/10 05:22 PM, Thomas Burgess wrote: > >> yah, it seems that rsync is faster for

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-21 Thread Ian Collins
On 05/22/10 05:22 PM, Thomas Burgess wrote: yah, it seems that rsync is faster for what i need anywaysat least right now... ZFS send/receive should run at wire speed for a Gig-E link. Ian. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.or

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-21 Thread Thomas Burgess
extended device statistics r/sw/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device 0.00.00.00.0 0.0 0.00.0 983.9 0 0 fd0 3.05.5 152.2 67.8 0.0 0.05.01.2 1 1 c8t1d0 41.33.4 1288.3 69.1 0.1 0.12.73.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-21 Thread Thomas Burgess
yah, it seems that rsync is faster for what i need anywaysat least right now... On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Ian Collins wrote: > On 05/22/10 04:44 PM, Thomas Burgess wrote: > >> I can't tell you for sure >> >> For some reason the server lost power and it's taking forever to come ba

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-21 Thread Ian Collins
On 05/22/10 04:44 PM, Thomas Burgess wrote: I can't tell you for sure For some reason the server lost power and it's taking forever to come back up. (i'm really not sure what happened) anyways, this leads me to my next couple questions: Is there any way to "resume" a zfs send/recv

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-21 Thread Thomas Burgess
I can't tell you for sure For some reason the server lost power and it's taking forever to come back up. (i'm really not sure what happened) anyways, this leads me to my next couple questions: Is there any way to "resume" a zfs send/recv Why is it taking so long for the server to come

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-21 Thread Brandon High
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Thomas Burgess wrote: > is 3 zfs recv's random? It might be. What do a few reports of 'iostat -xcn 30' look like? -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://m

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-21 Thread Thomas Burgess
yeah, i'm aware of the performance aspects. I use these servers as mostly hd video servers for my house...they don't need to perform amazingly. I originally went with the setup on the old server because of everything i had read about performance with wide stripes...in all honesty it performed ama

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-21 Thread Thomas Burgess
is 3 zfs recv's random? On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Brandon High wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Thomas Burgess > wrote: > > shouldn't the newer server have LESS load? > > Please forgive my ubernoobness. > > Depends on what it's doing! > > Load average is really how many proce

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-21 Thread Brandon High
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Thomas Burgess wrote: > shouldn't the newer server have LESS load? > Please forgive my ubernoobness. Depends on what it's doing! Load average is really how many process are waiting to run, so it's not always a useful metric. If there are processes waiting on disk

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-21 Thread Ian Collins
On 05/22/10 12:54 PM, Thomas Burgess wrote: Something i've been meaning to ask I'm transfering some data from my older server to my newer one. the older server has a socket 775 intel Q9550 8 gb ddr2 800 20 1TB drives in raidz2 (3 vdevs, 2 with 7 drives one with 6) connected to 3 AOC-SAT2

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-21 Thread Thomas Burgess
Something i've been meaning to ask I'm transfering some data from my older server to my newer one. the older server has a socket 775 intel Q9550 8 gb ddr2 800 20 1TB drives in raidz2 (3 vdevs, 2 with 7 drives one with 6) connected to 3 AOC-SAT2-MV8 cards spread as evenly across them as i coul

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-21 Thread Thomas Burgess
here ya go (sorry for the late reply) wonsl...@wonslung-raidz2:~$ kstat -m cpu_info -c misc module: cpu_infoinstance: 0 name: cpu_info0 class:misc brand AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6128 cache_id

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-17 Thread Dennis Clarke
>On 05-17-10, Thomas Burgess wrote:  >psrinfo -pv shows: > >The physical processor has 8 virtual processors (0-7) >    x86  (AuthenticAMD 100F91 family 16 model 9 step 1 clock 200 MHz) >               AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6128   [  Socket: G34 ] > That's odd. Please try this : # kstat -m

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-17 Thread Thomas Burgess
ok, well this was part of the problem. I disabled the Sata IDE combined mode and reinstalled opensolaris (i tried to just disable it but osol wouldn't boot) now the drive connected to the SSD DOES show up in cfgadm so it seems to be in sata mode...but the drives connected to the reverse breakout

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-17 Thread Brandon High
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Thomas Burgess wrote: > In the bios i can select from: > Native IDE > AMD_AHCI This is probably what you want. AHCI is supposed to be chipset agnostic. > I also have an option called  "Sate IDE combined mode" See if there's anything in the docs about what this

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-17 Thread Thomas Burgess
no.it doesn't. The only sata ports that show up are the ones connected to the backpane via the reverse breakout sas cableand they show as emptyso i'm thinking that opensolaris isn't working with the chipset sata. In the bios i can select from: Native IDE AMD_AHCI RAID Legacy IDE

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-17 Thread Thomas Burgess
age - > From: Thomas Burgess > Date: Saturday, May 15, 2010 8:09 pm > Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris? > To: Orvar Korvar > Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > > > > Well i just wanted to let everyone know that preliminary results are

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-17 Thread Thomas Burgess
, it shows what it should show at the bottom) I'll capture all that later and post it. On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > - Original Message - > From: Thomas Burgess > Date: Saturday, May 15, 2010 8:09 pm > Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 610

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-16 Thread Brandon High
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Thomas Burgess wrote: > well, i haven't had a lot of time to work with this...but i'm having trouble > getting the onboard sata to work in anything but NATIVE IDE mode. Have you tried going straight from the motherboard to a drive too? Take as many pieces out of t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-16 Thread Ian Collins
On 05/17/10 12:08 PM, Thomas Burgess wrote: well, i haven't had a lot of time to work with this...but i'm having trouble getting the onboard sata to work in anything but NATIVE IDE mode. I'm not sure exactly what the problem isi'm wondering if i bought the wrong cable (i have a norco 4220

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-16 Thread Thomas Burgess
well, i haven't had a lot of time to work with this...but i'm having trouble getting the onboard sata to work in anything but NATIVE IDE mode. I'm not sure exactly what the problem isi'm wondering if i bought the wrong cable (i have a norco 4220 case so the drives connect via a sas sff-8087 o

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-15 Thread Dennis Clarke
- Original Message - From: Thomas Burgess Date: Saturday, May 15, 2010 8:09 pm Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris? To: Orvar Korvar Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > Well i just wanted to let everyone know that preliminary results are good. >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-15 Thread Thomas Burgess
Well i just wanted to let everyone know that preliminary results are good. The livecd booted, all important things seem to be recognized. It sees all 16 gb of ram i installed and all 8 cores of my opteron 6128 The only real shocker is how loud the norco RPC-4220 fans are (i have another machine w

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-13 Thread Thomas Burgess
I ordered it. It should be here monday or tuesday. When i get everything built and installed, i'll report back. I'm very excited. I am not expecting problems now that i've talked to supermicro about it. Solaris 10 runs for them so i would imagine opensolaris should be fine too. On Thu, May 13

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-13 Thread Orvar Korvar
Great! Please report here so we can read about your impressions. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-12 Thread Dennis Clarke
>> > >> Bit of a chicken and egg that, isn't it? >> >> You need to run the tool to see if the board's worth buying and you need >> to buy the board to run the tool! >> > > *Somebody* has to be that first early adopter. After that, we all get > to ride on their experience. I am sure the Tier-1 st

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-12 Thread Erik Trimble
On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 13:25 +1200, Ian Collins wrote: > On 05/13/10 12:46 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: > > I've gotten a couple of the newest prototype AMD systems, with the C34 > > and G34 sockets. All have run various flavors of OpenSolaris quite > > well, with the exception of a couple of flaky netw

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-12 Thread Ian Collins
On 05/13/10 12:46 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: I've gotten a couple of the newest prototype AMD systems, with the C34 and G34 sockets. All have run various flavors of OpenSolaris quite well, with the exception of a couple of flaky network problems, which we've tracked down to pre-production NIC hardw

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-12 Thread Erik Trimble
I've gotten a couple of the newest prototype AMD systems, with the C34 and G34 sockets. All have run various flavors of OpenSolaris quite well, with the exception of a couple of flaky network problems, which we've tracked down to pre-production NIC hardware and early-access drivers. This is a sim

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-12 Thread James C. McPherson
On 12/05/10 11:21 PM, Thomas Burgess wrote: Now wait just a minute. You're casting aspersions on stuff here without saying what you're talking about, still less where you're getting your info from. Be specific - put up, or shut up. I think he was just trying to tell me that m

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-12 Thread Miles Nordin
> "jcm" == James C McPherson writes: >> storage controllers are more difficult for driver support. jcm> Be specific - put up, or shut up. marvell controller hangs machine when a drive is unplugged marvell controller does not support NCQ marvell driver is closed-source blob sil3124

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-12 Thread Geoff Nordli
>From: James C. McPherson [mailto:james.mcpher...@oracle.com] >Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 2:28 AM > >On 12/05/10 03:18 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote: > >> I have been wondering what the compatibility is like on OpenSolaris. >> My perception is basic network driver support is decent, but storage >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-12 Thread Tim Cook
The problem is the Solaris team and lsi have put a lot of work into the new 2008 cards. Claiming there are issues without listing specific bugs they can address is, I'm sure, frustrating to say the least. On May 12, 2010 8:22 AM, "Thomas Burgess" wrote: >> > > Now wait just a minute. You're cast

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-12 Thread Thomas Burgess
> > >> > Now wait just a minute. You're casting aspersions on > stuff here without saying what you're talking about, > still less where you're getting your info from. > > Be specific - put up, or shut up. > > I think he was just trying to tell me that my cpu should be fine, that the only thing whic

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-12 Thread James C. McPherson
On 12/05/10 03:18 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote: I have been wondering what the compatibility is like on OpenSolaris. My perception is basic network driver support is decent, but storage controllers are more difficult for driver support. Now wait just a minute. You're casting aspersions on stuff

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-12 Thread Thomas Burgess
This is how i understand it. I know the network cards are well supported and i know my storage cards are supportedthe onboard sata may work and it may not. If it does, great, i'll use it for booting, if not, this board has 2 onboard bootable USB sticksluckily usb seems to work regardless

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-11 Thread Geoff Nordli
On Behalf Of James C. McPherson >Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 5:41 PM > >On 12/05/10 10:32 AM, Michael DeMan wrote: >> I agree on the motherboard and peripheral chipset issue. >> >> This, and the last generation AMD quad/six core motherboards > > all seem to use the AMD SP56x0/SP5100 chipset, whic

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-11 Thread Thomas Burgess
Well i went ahead and ordered the board. I will report back soon with the results..i'm pretty excited. These CPU's seem great on paper. On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Thomas Burgess wrote: > the onboard sata is a secondary issue. If i need to, i'll boot from the > oboard usb slots. I have

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-11 Thread Thomas Burgess
the onboard sata is a secondary issue. If i need to, i'll boot from the oboard usb slots. I have 2 LSI 1068e based sas controllers which i will be using. On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:40 PM, James C. McPherson wrote: > On 12/05/10 10:32 AM, Michael DeMan wrote: > >> I agree on the motherboard and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-11 Thread James C. McPherson
On 12/05/10 10:32 AM, Michael DeMan wrote: I agree on the motherboard and peripheral chipset issue. This, and the last generation AMD quad/six core motherboards > all seem to use the AMD SP56x0/SP5100 chipset, which I can't > find much information about support on for either OpenSolaris or Free

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-11 Thread Michael DeMan
I agree on the motherboard and peripheral chipset issue. This, and the last generation AMD quad/six core motherboards all seem to use the AMD SP56x0/SP5100 chipset, which I can't find much information about support on for either OpenSolaris or FreeBSD. Another issue is the LSI SAS2008 chipset f

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-11 Thread Brandon High
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Thomas Burgess wrote: > I'm specificially looking at this motherboard: > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182230 I'd be more concerned that the motherboard and it's attached peripherals are unsupported than the processor. Solaris can handle

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-11 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
- "Thomas Burgess" skrev: I was looking at building a new ZFS based server for my media files and i was wondering if this cpu was supported...i googled and i coudlnt' find much info about it. I'm specificially looking at this motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?I

[zfs-discuss] Opteron 6100? Does it work with opensolaris?

2010-05-11 Thread Thomas Burgess
I was looking at building a new ZFS based server for my media files and i was wondering if this cpu was supported...i googled and i coudlnt' find much info about it. I'm specificially looking at this motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182230 I'd hate to buy i