I'm going to need some help with the crash dumps. I'm not very familiar
with Solaris.

Do I have to enable something to get the crash dumps? Where should I look
for them?

Thanks for the help.


On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Michael Schuster <michaelspriv...@gmail.com
> wrote:

> How about crash dumps?
>
> michael
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Peter Wood <peterwood...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I'm sorry. I should have mentioned it that I can't find any errors in the
>> logs. The last entry in /var/adm/messages is that I removed the keyboard
>> after the last reboot and then it shows the new boot up messages when I
>> boot up the system after the crash. The BIOS log is empty. I'm not sure how
>> to check the IPMI but IPMI is not configured and I'm not using it.
>>
>> Just another observation - the crashes are more intense the more data the
>> system serves (NFS).
>>
>> I'm looking into FRMW upgrades for the LSI now.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Will Murnane <will.murn...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Does the Supermicro IPMI show anything when it crashes?  Does anything
>>> show up in event logs in the BIOS, or in system logs under OI?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Peter Wood <peterwood...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have two identical Supermicro boxes with 32GB ram. Hardware details
>>>> at the end of the message.
>>>>
>>>> They were running OI 151.a.5 for months. The zpool configuration was
>>>> one storage zpool with 3 vdevs of 8 disks in RAIDZ2.
>>>>
>>>> The OI installation is absolutely clean. Just next-next-next until
>>>> done. All I do is configure the network after install. I don't install or
>>>> enable any other services.
>>>>
>>>> Then I added more disks and rebuild the systems with OI 151.a.7 and
>>>> this time configured the zpool with 6 vdevs of 5 disks in RAIDZ.
>>>>
>>>> The systems started crashing really bad. They just disappear from the
>>>> network, black and unresponsive console, no error lights but no activity
>>>> indication either. The only way out is to power cycle the system.
>>>>
>>>> There is no pattern in the crashes. It may crash in 2 days in may crash
>>>> in 2 hours.
>>>>
>>>> I upgraded the memory on both systems to 128GB at no avail. This is the
>>>> max memory they can take.
>>>>
>>>> In summary all I did is upgrade to OI 151.a.7 and reconfigured zpool.
>>>>
>>>> Any idea what could be the problem.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you
>>>>
>>>> -- Peter
>>>>
>>>> Supermicro X9DRH-iF
>>>> Xeon E5-2620 @ 2.0 GHz 6-Core
>>>> LSI SAS9211-8i HBA
>>>> 32x 3TB Hitachi HUS723030ALS640, SAS, 7.2K
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