Hi, I have been googeling and reading forums for a while now and tried many different things to fix my unstable ZFS file server. I am at a loss regarding where to look now so I hope someone here has a good idea.
The Story:
A year ago I made a file server with FreeBSD (AMD64, 2GB RAM), and three 2TB disks. It worked well at first, but then it started getting kernel panics. So I tuned it the best I could from guides/tips and suggestions I found online. Finally I got rid of all the panics, but it was still slow and disks kept "disappearing" randomly. I ran checks on the disks (Samsung's ES-tool) without results. So I fiddled with the SATA cables, and presumed that it was the problem.
Some months later the disks had only "disappeared" a few times. I bought more RAM to try to boost performance, removed all my tuning, and was pleased to find a significantly better response. However, this joy was short lived when the disks kept "disappearing" at an increased rate. Some further "testing" showed that the errors occur quite extensively when the disks are being written to. Another scan with ES-tool now report bad sectors with code AJ36. The ES-tool suggests a low level format. I am inclined to try but I need my data.
I hope there are some bright minds out there that can help me out here. I have a very limited FreeBSD knowledge beyond the every day usage, installing and updating.
Here is a printout of the latest dmesg: The RAID is resilvering two disks.
http://pastebin.com/qScqzaKp
The Story:
A year ago I made a file server with FreeBSD (AMD64, 2GB RAM), and three 2TB disks. It worked well at first, but then it started getting kernel panics. So I tuned it the best I could from guides/tips and suggestions I found online. Finally I got rid of all the panics, but it was still slow and disks kept "disappearing" randomly. I ran checks on the disks (Samsung's ES-tool) without results. So I fiddled with the SATA cables, and presumed that it was the problem.
Some months later the disks had only "disappeared" a few times. I bought more RAM to try to boost performance, removed all my tuning, and was pleased to find a significantly better response. However, this joy was short lived when the disks kept "disappearing" at an increased rate. Some further "testing" showed that the errors occur quite extensively when the disks are being written to. Another scan with ES-tool now report bad sectors with code AJ36. The ES-tool suggests a low level format. I am inclined to try but I need my data.
I hope there are some bright minds out there that can help me out here. I have a very limited FreeBSD knowledge beyond the every day usage, installing and updating.
Here is a printout of the latest dmesg: The RAID is resilvering two disks.
http://pastebin.com/qScqzaKp