From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 12:39:51 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 C7F9D106568E for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:39:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from admin@kkip.pl) Received: from mainframe.kkip.pl (kkip.pl [87.105.164.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72EA48FC20 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:39:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from admin@kkip.pl) Received: from admin.admin.lan.kkip.pl ([10.66.3.254]) by mainframe.kkip.pl with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1L2mLU-0008pe-5K; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:39:50 +0100 Message-ID: <49240915.5060201@kkip.pl> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:39:49 +0100 From: Bartosz Stec User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nenhum_de_Nos References: <76f9bb3fd8d40028f22f4585d2b8e983.squirrel@cygnus.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <76f9bb3fd8d40028f22f4585d2b8e983.squirrel@cygnus.homeunix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Authenticated-User: admin@kkip.pl X-Authenticator: plain X-Sender-Verify: SUCCEEDED (sender exists & accepts mail) X-Spam-Score: -8.7 X-Spam-Score-Int: -86 X-Exim-Version: 4.69 (build at 01-Nov-2008 10:39:57) X-Date: 2008-11-19 13:39:50 X-Connected-IP: 10.66.3.254:3156 X-Message-Linecount: 65 X-Body-Linecount: 51 X-Message-Size: 2235 X-Body-Size: 1645 X-Received-Count: 1 X-Recipient-Count: 2 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 2 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror and gstripe 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, 19 Nov 2008 12:39:51 -0000 Nenhum_de_Nos pisze: > hail, > > I have an old AthlonXP 1700+ running 7-STABLE: > > FreeBSD xxx 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #1: Thu Nov 13 23:54:59 > BRT 2008 root@xxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/xxx i386 > > where I have two 750GB Seagate SATA Disks. They are divided as two slices, > around the first 120GB are gathered in gmirror, and what left is in > gstripe. so that's whats going on. if the machine locks, and fsck comes to > make its job, the box just gets slower and slower till I have to reset it > the hard way. to make it not lock after just 5 minutes I have to boot and > umount the "arrays", and then run fsck_ufs on them. so this way I can have > the box running again. > Did you mean that machine slows down while doing background fsck? If yes, problem is probably related to snapshot which is created, and background fsck is done on snapshot. > as I can't count on no power outage till the end of days, what can I do ? > > You may just disable background fsck and do it manually in single user mode in that case just by typing fsck -y. > i just recompiled stable to make it stop this, but no go here ... > > this is an AthlonXP as said, running on EPoX kt600 based board, sata I is > from via southbridge and 1GB of RAM. just another 40GB disk to the system. > > thanks, > > matheus > If I am correct, your problem is old known and mksnap_ffs related. Jeremy Chadwick wrote a lot about it: http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues Good luck. -- Bartosz Stec AUXILIA Spółka z o.o. ul. Wałbrzyska 43/2 52-314 Wrocław tel. (71) 79 99 760 w. 69 GSM: 662171775 E-Mail: admin@kkip.pl