From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 20:37:07 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 BEBA21065673 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:37:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pmurray@nevada.net.nz) Received: from bellagio.open2view.net (bellagio.open2view.net [210.48.79.75]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 825628FC0A for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:37:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pmurray@nevada.net.nz) Received: from treasure-2.office.open2view.com (ip-58-28-153-152.static-xdsl.xnet.co.nz [58.28.153.152]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by bellagio.open2view.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 452DB1101AE0; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:37:06 +1300 (NZDT) Message-Id: <95E9EA2C-C288-4F11-AD35-FE6AF6633A09@nevada.net.nz> From: Philip Murray To: Oliver Lehmann In-Reply-To: <20081112204351.ccc51c2f.lehmann@ans-netz.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:37:03 +1300 References: <20081029170728.be7cc7ab.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <13394481-8FDC-4934-BB12-FA5BCB2D35CD@nevada.net.nz> <20081112204351.ccc51c2f.lehmann@ans-netz.de> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) 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 20:37:07 -0000 On 13/11/2008, at 8:43 AM, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > 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? > I just installed sysutils/tw_cli from ports, and it sets up some 'periodic' scripts for you. To be precise it puts 407.status-3ware- raid in /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily Cheers Phil