From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 27 04:09:16 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A337F2D for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 04:09:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nonesuch@longcount.org) Received: from mail-qa0-f47.google.com (mail-qa0-f47.google.com [209.85.216.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 389538FC0C for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 04:09:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qa0-f47.google.com with SMTP id t11so3925225qaa.13 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:09:15 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=subject:references:from:content-type:x-mailer:in-reply-to :message-id:date:to:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version :x-gm-message-state; bh=DuD4+SJhuiGsOEAS70VQaayvyMAPY3CgZx2CJftauXA=; b=jPK3bcYQKn8smEv2apHqIM5u5bwvF3e5FpNEJtYq1SGOvdLM8Gxg5Cp87K3bX/fo9t d7sb2iK4nrxQEKmhWN1DGKNQD497OuhQ1Omp9X1w2/Ll+mTSWYNEQevJA50cxZd6Gl/J dumXkNeGe2AF430CjeRsP9EpOyKyMdivHX933+p3dtqKFRCk1waYbuFVFAlz4i1DF8DK 7ZsmrdMmSq3FOaTVwROrUvrK3leoc3wgTw5OBhvP4tgNmzXHbX4lDeHxu/6X7OkRTwsx CvYM+z0X0WyXjDDgxGcrvUJsJXuMFHKw3IiwNTmz5L6KkPBNV26qlMCj77H8DQfOvRGr 2QNw== Received: by 10.49.118.74 with SMTP id kk10mr16487991qeb.44.1353989355003; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:09:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.11.110] (ool-4a58bea2.dyn.optonline.net. [74.88.190.162]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id em3sm9967117qab.12.2012.11.26.20.09.13 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:09:14 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Write Failed message with 9.1-RC3 References: From: Mark Saad Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (9B206) In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:09:11 -0500 To: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmATyM4z7Z+hH7HguT4dBB9wUmduwm2HhRG1uld7d2gMI/suMQQ7Sa9OSGWHlmcaXYAPUCj X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 04:09:16 -0000 On Nov 26, 2012, at 4:01 PM, "Reed A. Cartwright" wrote= : > I'm new to this list... >=20 > I'm running a bioinformatics server using 9.1-RC3 (64 cores, 512GB > ram). I have a ZFS raid-z2 array attached to an LSI controller with a > SSD cache drive. Can you tell us more about this server . Can you post the output of pciconf -= lv , What do you have in loader.conf and sysctl.conf ? Do you se a custom kernel b= uild; What are the changes you made to that config ?=20 >=20 > Since upgrading to 9.1-RC2/3 (for AVX support), I have been > experiencing hard drive lockups with the message "write failed" > printed to the console. After this reading from the hard drives no > longer work, but the machine is not locked up. If the appropriate > files are in the cache, I can log in and execute programs. I know the > LSI driver has been updated in 9.1 and I have updated my cards' bios > to match. It doesn't seem to make a difference. >=20 > Once I was able to run top, and saw that many processes were stuck in > the 'tx->tx' state. What does your zfs config look like can you post the output if zpool status ?= What zfz options have you set on pool and filesystens ? Lastly In a shutdown -h now , does the system properly shutdown ,does it cra= sh and dump core ? >=20 > So far, no corruption appears to have occurred in the drives. >=20 > I'm about to downgrade to 9.0, but I wanted to know if anyone has any > idea what the issue is. >=20 > -- > Reed A. Cartwright, PhD > Assistant Professor of Genomics, Evolution, and Bioinformatics > School of Life Sciences > Center for Evolutionary Medicine and Informatics > The Biodesign Institute > Arizona State University > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --- Mark saad | mark.saad@longcount.org