Greetings,
We rented a new server to be used for backups. This server has this motherboard and we're using two Kingston Data Traveler 3.0 64GB sticks which are plugged into the USB 3.0 ports I believe. This is a setup we've been running for over a year on different Supermicro hardware without issue.
I installed a fresh copy of 11.2 on this system using both USB drives. Initial boot takes 30 minutes or more. Any configuration attempt at all locks the SQLite databases, causes UI timeouts, etc. Performance is so terrible as to make this setup completely unusable. We've had them replace our USB drives and have done several fresh installs and we get the same result every time. I've tried installing on just one USB drive and get the same results as well.
I booted SystemRescueCD and formatted these drives as XFS and ran a few basic tests i.e.
There are no log entries that I can see such as hardware timeouts. No other log entries other than the various middleware processes complaining about locked DB and timeouts.
Does anyone have any idea what I could do to troubleshoot this further? I'm tempted to say the heck with it and just install the OS on the data drives, which work just fine as far as I know. But this isn't a rush so I'd really like to figure out what's going on if possible.
Thanks.
We rented a new server to be used for backups. This server has this motherboard and we're using two Kingston Data Traveler 3.0 64GB sticks which are plugged into the USB 3.0 ports I believe. This is a setup we've been running for over a year on different Supermicro hardware without issue.
I installed a fresh copy of 11.2 on this system using both USB drives. Initial boot takes 30 minutes or more. Any configuration attempt at all locks the SQLite databases, causes UI timeouts, etc. Performance is so terrible as to make this setup completely unusable. We've had them replace our USB drives and have done several fresh installs and we get the same result every time. I've tried installing on just one USB drive and get the same results as well.
I booted SystemRescueCD and formatted these drives as XFS and ran a few basic tests i.e.
dd if=/dev/zero if=test.bin bs=1024000 count=16000
(this system only has 16GB of ram). Performance was what I'd expect from a USB stick. No hangups, no 3s+ response times. It seems like for whatever reason this is a FreeNAS issue.There are no log entries that I can see such as hardware timeouts. No other log entries other than the various middleware processes complaining about locked DB and timeouts.
Does anyone have any idea what I could do to troubleshoot this further? I'm tempted to say the heck with it and just install the OS on the data drives, which work just fine as far as I know. But this isn't a rush so I'd really like to figure out what's going on if possible.
Thanks.