FreeNAS 9.10 on USB, install plugin took very long time and failed, also crashed the web gui

[skygunner]

Hi,

My setup

Code:

Intel S3420GPC Server board
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3470 @ 2.93GHz
8GB DDR3 ECC
Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
Intel 5 Series/3400 Series AHCI SATA controller with 6 2TB harddrives

cat: /etc/version.freenas: No such file or directory

System Load: 0.07, 0.10, 0.08

CPU Temperature:
dev.cpu.7.temperature: 40.0C
dev.cpu.6.temperature: 40.0C
dev.cpu.5.temperature: 43.0C
dev.cpu.4.temperature: 43.0C
dev.cpu.3.temperature: 46.0C
dev.cpu.2.temperature: 46.0C
dev.cpu.1.temperature: 41.0C
dev.cpu.0.temperature: 41.0C

Drive Activity Status
ada0:FF  ada1:FF  ada2:FF  ada3:FF  ada4:FF  ada5:FF

HDD Temperature:
ada0 35 9WM65P6Y ST32000644NS
ada1 36 9WM2E5BJ ST32000644NS
ada2 30 Z8E00331 ST2000DM001-1ER164
ada3 36 9WM1PNPB ST32000644NS
ada4 36 9WM1B0BH ST32000644NS
ada5 31 WD-WCAZA9734804 WDC

harddisks have been put into mirrored vdevs(each vdev has 2 harddisks)

zpool status
  pool: tank
state: ONLINE
  scan: none requested
config:

		NAME											STATE	 READ WRITE CKSUM
		tank											ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
		  mirror-0									  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
			gptid/a3a48b01-8ca6-11e6-8402-001517f91241  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
			gptid/a46240a3-8ca6-11e6-8402-001517f91241  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
		  mirror-1									  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
			gptid/a5a7d998-8ca6-11e6-8402-001517f91241  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
			gptid/a6652796-8ca6-11e6-8402-001517f91241  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
		  mirror-2									  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
			gptid/a720e2ad-8ca6-11e6-8402-001517f91241  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
			gptid/a850f609-8ca6-11e6-8402-001517f91241  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0

Each harddisk is 2TB, usable space 6TB.
enabled system services:
SSH
FTP
SMB
SMART

No ZIL or L2ARC setup yet.

Full gigabit network setup.

The FreeNAS system itself was installed to a 32GB USB 2.0 disk.
While I tried to install the transmission plugin, it stucked at the creating template progress,
after an hour or more, it crashed the web gui as well.
It seems the modern FreeNAS doesn't like USB disk anymore like the very old FreeNAS?

 

[dlavigne]

I doubt it's the USB stick. I have found that 16GB RAM is better for installing jails/plugins as I've had varied success with only 8GB RAM (some plugins install and some do what you saw instead).