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Date:      Mon, 9 Sep 2019 13:45:52 +0200
From:      Albert Shih <Albert.Shih@obspm.fr>
To:        Julien Cigar <julien@perdition.city>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Verry serious problem with ZFS & 12.0
Message-ID:  <20190909114552.GD13411@io.chezmoi.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20190829083727.GC38457@home.lan>
References:  <20190828224547.GA1557@io.chezmoi.fr> <20190829083727.GC38457@home.lan>

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Le 29/08/2019 à 10:37:28+0200, Julien Cigar a écrit
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 12:45:47AM +0200, Albert Shih wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > After update 4 servers from 11.2 to 12.0 without any problem, wait few
> > weeks to see if everything work well, and it did. I just upgrade my mail
> > server.
> >
> > During the upgrade I also upgrade all firmware for the hardware.
> >
> > And now I got a very serious issue with my server.
> >
> > Configuration :
> >
> >   Dell PowerEdge R740Xd with H730P, 192 Go Ram, 2 SAS mechanical disk for the system,
> >   2 SSD (in a zfs pool) for the mail index (cyrus), and 28 mechanical disk
> >   (in a second zfs pool) for the mailbox.
> >
> > The problem:
> >
> >   After running few days the zfs pool with the 2 SSD are not responding.
> >
> >   The system are perfectly working.
> >
> >   The second zpool (mechanical disk) are perfectly working.
> >
> >   I got zero log, zero message in the console or in dmesg.
> >
> >   The arc_size are correct, it's around 70-75 %.
> >
> >   The moment the zfs pool become not responding are random, not related to
> >   any activity (human or cron).
> >
> >   The only option I pass for the kernel related to ZFS are vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift=12 and
> >   vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=1. Without the second one the system no
> >   responding (under 11.2) when the server send (through zfs send) the data to another
> >   server.
> >
> >   After the first problem I make a zfs upgrade, thinking maybe that's the
> >   problem so I'm not sure I can downgrade to 11.2 (and 11.2 are EOL)
> >
> > In your opinion :
> >
> >   1/ What should I do to try to find the problem ?
> >
> >   2/ Do you think that's a hardware/firmware problem or FreeBSD problem,
> >   the point is the second zpool are working perfectly so I'm thinking at
> >   some firmware/hardware/compatibility problem.
> >
> >
> > Regards.
>
> looks like PR 236480
>
> see https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=236480
>

So I can confirm, with this patch the server work fine without any hang or
crash.

Thanks folks.

Regards

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Albert SHIH
Observatoire de Paris
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Mon 09 Sep 2019 01:44:42 PM CEST



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