At work we used to run such a machine with 9.1 and 10.2. My colleague
tells me 10.3 gave errors, but he does not remember what.
The machine is not in use anymore, because of other upgrades, so I can't
verify for you.
Any reason not to try 11? I don't know if it fixes anything, but it would
be a nice data point for comparison.
Ronald.
On Tue, 07 Feb 2017 22:44:01 +0100, Lee Damon <nomad at castle.org> wrote:
> FreeBSD [redacted] 10.3-STABLE FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE #2 r313008: Tue Jan
> 31 01:50:49 PST 2017 lvd@[redacted]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> amd64
>
> I'm trying to get FBSD 10.3 working on a Sun x4500 (don't ask) for
use
> as a ZFS-based backup server. However, whenever any amount of data is
> put into a zpool and then zpool scrub is run the host locks up hard. On
> reboot it complains that a "Hyper transport sync flood occurred".
>
> I found
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2012-January/065542.html
> which seems to match but when I try the cpuset command mentioned there I
> get an error:
>
> ; sudo cpuset -c -l 0 -x 58
> cpuset: setaffinity: Invalid argument
>
> Looks like the -c was invalid. After removing that I was informed -x 58
> wasn't valid. Sure enough, there's no mpt0 or IRQ 58 on the host:
>
> ; vmstat -i
> interrupt total rate
> irq17: ohci2 8578 2
> irq18: ohci3 473 0
> irq19: ohci0 ohci1+ 4924 1
> irq24: mvs0 457 0
> irq32: mvs1 453 0
> irq38: mvs2 451 0
> irq46: mvs3 8063 1
> irq52: em0 152354 35
> irq53: em1 140 0
> irq68: mvs4 450 0
> irq76: mvs5 454 0
> cpu0:timer 208311 48
> cpu1:timer 98318 23
> cpu2:timer 105704 24
> cpu3:timer 106202 24
> Total 695332 162
>
> Looking around with some help from #freebsd on efnet I found mvs0-5
> which are connected to the Marvel drive controllers on the host. I then
> used
> ; sudo cpuset -l 0 -x ##
> where I replaced ## with 24, 32, 38, 46, 68, and 76.
>
> After rebuilding the zpool I started writing to it. It took a lot less
> time to crash - I didn't even need to run zpool scrub - but instead of
> completely locking up it just rebooted. I did not see reference to the
> hyper transport problem while watching it boot but given the poor
> performance of the serial console I can't be 100% sure it wasn't
there.
>
> So now I turn here to ask for guidance. Is anyone currently successfully
> running 10.x on a x4500 and if so, how are you doing it? If not, how can
> I get this working?
>
> thanks,
> nomad
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