From nobody Tue Feb 08 14:54:07 2022 X-Original-To: freebsd-current@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E306819B6506 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2022 14:54:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sbruno@freebsd.org) Received: from mail.ignoranthack.me (ignoranthack.me [199.102.79.106]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4JtQy93Qpcz4Tt0 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2022 14:54:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sbruno@freebsd.org) Received: from [192.168.1.14] (c-98-249-71-218.hsd1.nm.comcast.net [98.249.71.218]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (128/128 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: sbruno@ignoranthack.me) by mail.ignoranthack.me (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7004F1AF4F8 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2022 14:54:08 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2022 07:54:07 -0700 List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.6.0 Subject: Re: USB Disk Stalls on -current Content-Language: en-US To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <7e8459e4-d708-7750-402c-cda2adf6199f@freebsd.org> From: Sean Bruno In-Reply-To: <7e8459e4-d708-7750-402c-cda2adf6199f@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4JtQy93Qpcz4Tt0 X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=softfail (mx1.freebsd.org: 199.102.79.106 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of sbruno@freebsd.org) smtp.mailfrom=sbruno@freebsd.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.87 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; FREEFALL_USER(0.00)[sbruno]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-current@freebsd.org]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; R_SPF_SOFTFAIL(0.00)[~all:c]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.77)[-0.768]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[98.249.71.218:received]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[freebsd.org]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-current]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:36236, ipnet:199.102.76.0/22, country:US]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; TO_DOM_EQ_FROM_DOM(0.00)[] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On 2/6/22 10:14, Sean Bruno wrote: > I'm doing something "gross" with ZFS & Plex on a little Intel NUC that I > have here at the house to provide me with a nice little NAS at home. I'm > using 2x USB2 external disks as the mirror. > > I noted that the two USB2 disks I'm using in a mirror seem to "stall" > from time to time and its not clear to me why. > > I'd like to poke further into the USB system but I'm not sure where I > should start to see if there is something amiss with the hardware (e.g. > the disks suck) or if FreeBSD is losing track of something during I/O > leading to a stall/timeout. > > I'm not seeing data loss or anything, I just note from time to time > during large file transfers that the clanking/grinding sound of the > spinning rust on my desk completely stops, the encoding of the video > files stops (so its waiting for a read to complete) and its gets much > quieter in my office.  :-) > > sean > I think I'm going to grab one of these fancy 5-disk USB 3 enclosures I see on the Internet. ;-) Most of the consumer grade units seem to have one or more issues (no NCQ depth more than 1, loud/bad fans, hard to get a real JBOD mode, JBOD mode eats serial numbers making ID hard). I think I settled on the TERRAMASTER D5-300 USB3.1 I'll post back results when it arrives and I get done swearing and cursing during the replacement. sean