Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:15:13 -0700 From: "Reed A. Cartwright" <cartwright@asu.edu> To: olivier <olivier777a7@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Kashyap.Desai@lsi.com Subject: Re: NFS/ZFS hangs after upgrading from 9.0-RELEASE to -STABLE Message-ID: <CALOkxuzzQRt3_Zw1KqbT_-zv2JkpRPkaxbQHUi910V5m6mTu7A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CALC5%2B1PdPnnx4ARGDOZeHKYuUVknQFGSKOZR1tz-mDDwCR%2B-8Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <CALC5%2B1Ptc=c_hxfc_On9iDN4AC_Xmrfdbc1NgyJH2ZxP6fE0Aw@mail.gmail.com> <50C9AFC6.6080902@FreeBSD.org> <CALC5%2B1MRurpbznOYrnE%2BK%2B=BEuj80iqJUbYkLN7SKFwtKqbE1Q@mail.gmail.com> <50CA1639.1010409@FreeBSD.org> <CALC5%2B1MpTUxtfJFN2Zu8%2BOSQ81ioEOTWApEY7zLB1tUkdsUj%2BQ@mail.gmail.com> <CALC5%2B1PdPnnx4ARGDOZeHKYuUVknQFGSKOZR1tz-mDDwCR%2B-8Q@mail.gmail.com>
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I have also down graded to the MPS driver from 9.0. We've been running the server pretty heavily since then and no lockups have occurred since. It has been about a week. On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:14 PM, olivier <olivier777a7@gmail.com> wrote: > For what it's worth, I think I might have solved my problem by reverting to > an older version of the mps driver. I checked out a recent version of > 9-STABLE and reversed the changes in > http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=230592 (perhaps there > was a simpler way of reverting to the older mps driver). So far so good, no > hang even when hammering the file system. > > This does not conclusively prove that the new LSI mps driver is at fault, > but that seems to be a likely explanation. > > Thanks to everybody who pointed me in the right direction. Hope this helps > others who run into similar problems with 9.1 > Olivier > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:14 AM, olivier <olivier777a7@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >>> Google for "zfs deadman". This is already committed upstream and I think >>> that it >>> is imported into FreeBSD, but I am not sure... Maybe it's imported just >>> into the >>> vendor area and is not merged yet. >>> >> >> Yes, that's exactly what I had in mind. The logic for panicking makes >> sense. >> As far as I can tell you're correct that deadman is in the vendor area but >> not merged. Any idea when it might make it into 9-STABLE? >> Thanks >> Olivier >> >> >> >> >>> So, when enabled this logic would panic a system as a way of letting know >>> that >>> something is wrong. You can read in the links why panic was selected for >>> this job. >>> >>> And speaking FreeBSD-centric - I think that our CAM layer would be a >>> perfect place >>> to detect such issues in non-ZFS-specific way. >>> >>> -- >>> Andriy Gapon >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Reed A. Cartwright, PhD Assistant Professor of Genomics, Evolution, and Bioinformatics School of Life Sciences Center for Evolutionary Medicine and Informatics The Biodesign Institute Arizona State University
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