From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 26 21:27:28 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8B58F94 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:27:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73CAE18F for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:27:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vincemacbook.unsane.co.uk (vincemacbook.unsane.co.uk [10.10.10.20]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.6/8.14.6) with ESMTP id r1QLRQbi061654 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:27:26 GMT (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <512D28BB.4080402@unsane.co.uk> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:27:23 +0000 From: Vincent Hoffman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130216 Thunderbird/17.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "rihad@mail.ru >> rihad" Subject: Re: mfi timeouts References: <512CFF90.8080806@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <512CFF90.8080806@mail.ru> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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, 26 Feb 2013 21:27:28 -0000 On 26/02/2013 18:31, rihad wrote: >> On 28/10/2011 04:14, Jan Mikkelsen wrote: >> >/ Hi, >> />/ >> />/ There is a patch linked to from this PR, which seems very similar: >> />/ >> />/ http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/140416 >> />/ >> />/ http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2011-March/004839.html >> />/ >> />/ The problem is also consistent with running mfiutil clearing the problem. >> />/ >> />/ I'm about to deploy mfi controllers in a similar configuration, so I'd be very curious about whether the patch fixes the problem for you. >> />/ >> /This looks promising, I'll give a try when I get a moment. > > Hi, > > Did the patch help? We're having the same issues & running "mfiutil > show volumes" every minute doesn't make the freezes go away. > Will this small patch be ok on 8.2-RELEASE-p4? Thanks. >From what I remember this patch did help. That server has been running happily on 8.3 release for the last 300 days or so with no timeouts. Vince