Re: [zfs-discuss] strange pool disks usage pattern

2009-10-08 Thread Maurilio Longo
By the way, there are more than fifty bugs logged for marevell88sx, many of them about problems with DMA handling and/or driver behaviour under stress. Can it be that I'm stumbling upon something along these lines? http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6826483 Maurilio.

Re: [zfs-discuss] strange pool disks usage pattern

2009-10-05 Thread Maurilio Longo
Richard, thanks for the explanation. So can we say that the problem is in the disks loosing a command now and then under stress? Best regards. Maurilio. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] strange pool disks usage pattern

2009-10-05 Thread Richard Elling
On Oct 4, 2009, at 11:52 PM, Maurilio Longo wrote: Richard, thanks for the explanation. So can we say that the problem is in the disks loosing a command now and then under stress? It may be the disks or the HBA. I'll bet a steak dinner it is the HBA. -- richard

Re: [zfs-discuss] strange pool disks usage pattern

2009-10-05 Thread Maurilio Longo
Richard, it is the same controller used inside Sun's thumpers; It could be a problem in my unit (which is a couple of years old now), though. Is there something I can do to find out if I owe you that steak? :) Thanks. Maurilio. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] strange pool disks usage pattern

2009-10-02 Thread Maurilio Longo
Hi, I have a pc with a MARVELL AOC-SAT2-MV8 controller and a pool made up of a six disks in a raid-z pool with a hot spare. pre -bash-3.2$ /sbin/zpool status pool: nas stato: ONLINE scrub: scrub in progress for 9h4m, 81,59% done, 2h2m to go config: NAMESTATE READ WRITE

Re: [zfs-discuss] strange pool disks usage pattern

2009-10-02 Thread Carson Gaspar
Maurilio Longo wrote: Hi, I have a pc with a MARVELL AOC-SAT2-MV8 controller and a pool made up of a six disks in a raid-z pool with a hot spare. ... Now, the problem is that issuing an iostat -Cmnx 10 or any other time intervall, I've seen, sometimes, a complete stall of disk I/O due to a

Re: [zfs-discuss] strange pool disks usage pattern

2009-10-02 Thread Maurilio Longo
Carson, the strange thing is that this is happening on several disks (can it be that are all failing?) What is the controller bug you're talking about? I'm running snv_114 on this pc, so it is fairly recent. Best regards. Maurilio. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] strange pool disks usage pattern

2009-10-02 Thread Carson Gaspar
Maurilio Longo wrote: the strange thing is that this is happening on several disks (can it be that are all failing?) Possible, but less likely. I'd suggest running some disk I/O tests, looking at the drive error counters before/after. What is the controller bug you're talking about? I'm

Re: [zfs-discuss] strange pool disks usage pattern

2009-10-02 Thread Maurilio Longo
Possible, but less likely. I'd suggest running some disk I/O tests, looking at the drive error counters before/after. These disks have a few months of life and are scrubbed weekly, no errors so far. I did try to use smartmontools, but it cannot report SMART logs nor start SMART tests, so

Re: [zfs-discuss] strange pool disks usage pattern

2009-10-02 Thread Carson Gaspar
Maurilio Longo wrote: I did try to use smartmontools, but it cannot report SMART logs nor start SMART tests, so I don't know how to look at their internal state. Really? That's odd... You could also have a firmware bug on your disks. You might try lowering the number of tagged commands per

Re: [zfs-discuss] strange pool disks usage pattern

2009-10-02 Thread Robert Milkowski
Maurilio Longo wrote: Carson, the strange thing is that this is happening on several disks (can it be that are all failing?) What is the controller bug you're talking about? I'm running snv_114 on this pc, so it is fairly recent. Best regards. Maurilio. See 'iostat -En' output.

Re: [zfs-discuss] strange pool disks usage pattern

2009-10-02 Thread Maurilio Longo
Milek, this is it pre # iostat -En c1t0d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0 Vendor: ATA Product: ST3808110AS Revision: DSerial No: Size: 80,03GB 80026361856 bytes Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0 Illegal Request: 91 Predictive

Re: [zfs-discuss] strange pool disks usage pattern

2009-10-02 Thread Maurilio Longo
Errata, they're ST31000333AS and not 340AS Maurilio. -- 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] strange pool disks usage pattern

2009-10-02 Thread Richard Elling
For the archives... On Oct 2, 2009, at 12:41 AM, Maurilio Longo wrote: Hi, I have a pc with a MARVELL AOC-SAT2-MV8 controller and a pool made up of a six disks in a raid-z pool with a hot spare. pre -bash-3.2$ /sbin/zpool status pool: nas stato: ONLINE scrub: scrub in progress for 9h4m,