Hi All,
I have had problems with iSCSI in the past but thought I would give it another go. I created the targets and all of the other settings and got Win 7 connecting with MutualChap. The drive appeared, I formatted it and started to copy files. The first copy went fine. I then moved a directory. This was removed from the old disk but I couldn't find it on the iSCSI disk. It is slightly possible that I sent the files to a different location.
Anyway, I set a large copy going and woke up to the disk no longer mounted on my Win 7 machine. Freenas was running slowly as well. I ran top and found that there were over 1100 processes. I tried to list all of the processes and eventualy ran this command ps -a -U root -H. Most of the entries were ...
18208 ?? ILs 0:00.02 /usr/local/bin/istgt -c /usr/local/etc/istgt/istgt.conf
18208 ?? ILs 0:00.02 /usr/local/bin/istgt -c /usr/local/etc/istgt/istgt.conf
18208 ?? ILs 0:00.02 /usr/local/bin/istgt -c /usr/local/etc/istgt/istgt.conf
I am not really sure what I am looking at. I think these are threads of the process 18208.
Anyway, the Freenas box isn't happy at the moment and I will probably not use iSCSI again. I am not really sure of the advantages over shares in my situation.
I posted this in case someone else has experienced the same.
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I restarted the machine and it seems the 1028 threads for istgt is normal.
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Actually, the reboot didn't occur because the istgt process couldn't be stopped. Now it has 5 threads.
I also saw some error saying that my iscsi name was formatted correctly. I fixed this. The only other message was some GEOM: messages saying the iSCSI partition does not start/end on a track boundary
regards
Justin.
I have had problems with iSCSI in the past but thought I would give it another go. I created the targets and all of the other settings and got Win 7 connecting with MutualChap. The drive appeared, I formatted it and started to copy files. The first copy went fine. I then moved a directory. This was removed from the old disk but I couldn't find it on the iSCSI disk. It is slightly possible that I sent the files to a different location.
Anyway, I set a large copy going and woke up to the disk no longer mounted on my Win 7 machine. Freenas was running slowly as well. I ran top and found that there were over 1100 processes. I tried to list all of the processes and eventualy ran this command ps -a -U root -H. Most of the entries were ...
18208 ?? ILs 0:00.02 /usr/local/bin/istgt -c /usr/local/etc/istgt/istgt.conf
18208 ?? ILs 0:00.02 /usr/local/bin/istgt -c /usr/local/etc/istgt/istgt.conf
18208 ?? ILs 0:00.02 /usr/local/bin/istgt -c /usr/local/etc/istgt/istgt.conf
I am not really sure what I am looking at. I think these are threads of the process 18208.
Anyway, the Freenas box isn't happy at the moment and I will probably not use iSCSI again. I am not really sure of the advantages over shares in my situation.
I posted this in case someone else has experienced the same.
[ edit ]
I restarted the machine and it seems the 1028 threads for istgt is normal.
[ edit ]
Actually, the reboot didn't occur because the istgt process couldn't be stopped. Now it has 5 threads.
I also saw some error saying that my iscsi name was formatted correctly. I fixed this. The only other message was some GEOM: messages saying the iSCSI partition does not start/end on a track boundary
regards
Justin.
