On May 19, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Dennis Glatting <[email protected]> wrote:
> ZFS hangs on multi-socket systems (Tyan, Supermicro) under 9.1. ZFS does
> not hang under 8.4. This (and one other 4 socket) is a production
> system.
Can you be more specific, I have been running 9.0 and 9.1 systems with
multi-CPU and all ZFS with no (CPU related*) issues.
* I say no CPU related issues because I have run into SATA timeout issues with
an external SATA enclosure with 4 drives (I know, SATA port expanders are evil,
but it is my best option here). Sometimes the zpool hangs hard, sometimes just
becomes unresponsive for a while. My "fix", such as it is, is to tune the zfs
per vdev queue depth as follows:
vfs.zfs.vdev.min_pending="3"
vfs.zfs.vdev.max_pending="5"
The defaults are 5 and 10 respectively, and when I run with those I have the
timeout issues, but only under very heavy I/O load. I only generate such load
when migrating large amounts of data, which thankfully does not happen all that
often.
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Paul Kraus
Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3
Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company
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