3Ware 9000 series hangs under load

Philip Murray pmurray at nevada.net.nz
Wed Nov 12 12:37:07 PST 2008


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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