I was doing some work in a remote location with a laggy connection to home. I was running ansible and kept encountering these errors: fatal: [pg01]: FAILED! => {“failed”: true, “msg”: “Timeout (12s) waiting for privilege escalation prompt: “} Rerunning the script would encounter the same error in a different part of the script. After […]
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The knew server is ‘frozen’ again. This has been happening daily at about O301 UTC each night. See my Twitter feed for background. In this post I will include details as I progress through the data. The server in question is knew (yes, that’s the hostname). dtrace hotkernel I left this running in an ssh
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I recently added 10 new HDD to a system which already had 10 HDD (now a total of 20). The HDD are split into two zpools: $ zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE EXPANDSZ FRAG CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT system 27T 22.1T 4.93T – 19% 81% 1.00x ONLINE – tank_data 45.2T 26.3T 19.0T – 37%
system freezes up with lots of sonewconn Listen queue overflow Read More »
WARNING: This did not work. It succeeded, without error, but the card did not work. There will be a new blog post soon. Yesterday, a new LSI SAS 9201-16i arrived. I bought it on eBay from a supplier in China and paid for expedited shipping. I offered US$250 for their $338 listing and it was
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After upgrading all my servers to FreeBSD 10.3 last weekend, I started to see these messages in the logs: Aug 3 21:15:19 slocum ntpd[29456]: leapsecond file (‘/var/db/ntpd.leap-seconds.list’): expired less than 64 days ago I found this post which suggested running service ntpd fetch but that did not fix it. While debugging the issue, I added
leapsecond file (‘/var/db/ntpd.leap-seconds.list’): expired less than N days ago Read More »
Every year PGCon holds a charity auction as part of the closing session. All proceeds go to The Ottawa Mission, a local group. The auction includes items you would keep as art, and some you would consume before you left town. Others, such as empty paper bags or cardboard boxes are left in the recycling
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Let’s try the speed test which comes with Bacula’s btape utility. This is Bacula 7.4.0 on FreeBSD 10.2, with a Dell TL4000 LTO-4 tape library.
Using Bacula’s btape speed test on FreeBSD 10.2 and an LTO-4 tape drive Read More »
I have recently added two 480 GB SSDs to a 10 x HDD raidz2 system. The SSDs will be mainly used for spooling to tape during backups, but I’m going to use a small part of it for a SLOG. Not all systems benefits from a SLOG (Separate intent LOG), but synchronous writes, such as
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For future reference, this is the knew server. It runs a few jails, including Bacula regression testing services. File systems Paritions zpools /var/run/dmesg.boot
Last night, I moved a SAS card and had to renumber some devices. I also moved two SSDs into the same box (see photos). Those SSDs were the boot drives from the system from which I pulled the SAS drive. That box, tape01, contains the Bacula configuration file I need for this new box. I
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