Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:37:03 +1300 From: Philip Murray <pmurray@nevada.net.nz> To: Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3Ware 9000 series hangs under load Message-ID: <95E9EA2C-C288-4F11-AD35-FE6AF6633A09@nevada.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <20081112204351.ccc51c2f.lehmann@ans-netz.de> References: <20081029170728.be7cc7ab.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <13394481-8FDC-4934-BB12-FA5BCB2D35CD@nevada.net.nz> <20081112204351.ccc51c2f.lehmann@ans-netz.de>
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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
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