From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 19:43:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B46041065670 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:43:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lehmann@ans-netz.de) Received: from avocado.salatschuessel.net (avocado.salatschuessel.net [78.111.72.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0AB8C8FC13 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:43:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lehmann@ans-netz.de) Received: (qmail 71999 invoked by uid 89); 12 Nov 2008 19:43:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO kartoffel.salatschuessel.net) (78.111.72.187) by avocado.salatschuessel.net with SMTP; 12 Nov 2008 19:43:47 -0000 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:43:51 +0100 From: Oliver Lehmann To: Philip Murray Message-Id: <20081112204351.ccc51c2f.lehmann@ans-netz.de> In-Reply-To: <13394481-8FDC-4934-BB12-FA5BCB2D35CD@nevada.net.nz> References: <20081029170728.be7cc7ab.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <13394481-8FDC-4934-BB12-FA5BCB2D35CD@nevada.net.nz> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; amd64-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3Ware 9000 series hangs under load X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:43:50 -0000 Philip Murray wrote: > I used to get this (FreeBSD 6.1 days) all the time, the controller > would just lock up almost on a daily basis (and have to wait for the > fsck 4 out of 24 hours in the day). > > Anyway, I stopped running 3dmd (or 3dm2 I think it's called now) to > monitor it, and the crashes went away. It's had hundreds of days > uptime since. > > I've never been game enough to try newer versions of 3dm, but a > cronjob of tw_cli allows me to monitor it now without the lockups. > > Might not be your problem, but it's worth a shot if all else fails. Ok, it realy looks, like 3dm2 is causing the same problems here too. I've tried several 3dm2 versions and beginning with the version released with 9.1.5.2 the system is crashing on high i/o loads. The previous release included in 9.0.1 and 9.0.2 (made in 2004 iirc) is not crashing. Every release which was made later causes system crashes as well. I'll see what the support staff responds to that.... What cronjobs are you running in particlular to "replace" 3dm2? -- Oliver Lehmann http://www.pofo.de/ http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/