Have to reboot Freenas everyday problem

[Jslile]

I hate that my first post has to be asking for help but i have been using freenas since freenas 8 came out and have no problems till now. I have two exact same server setups for a small business but one of them begins to run slower and slower and by the end of the day you cannot access it view smb or ssh or the web gui.

I have messed with this, swapped thumb drives, hard drives and cannot figure out what is wrong. I have searched the web and forum and cannot seem to find a post with the same problem. I feel like it has to be an issue with the thumb drive, but when i swapped it out it still crashes.

If any one can help i would apprecaite it very much.

The server is running FreeNAS-8.0.3-RELEASE-x64 (9395) and has very good specs, 16g memory, two 1tb drives in a zfs mirror, dual core amd x64 processor.

Thank you in advance.

 

[peterh]

have you done the basics ( looking for memory hogs, observed which processes are active etc) ?
also, is the pool healthy ?

 

[Jslile]

So far everything on the freenas seems to be running great, till it randomly locks up. The zfs pool is healthy, the server as 16gigs of memory and when i check processes only about 600mb are being used. And during heavy file transfers when i try to stress the server a will only get 15% CPU usage.

some new information, I am running a cisco small business router(rv120w) and I have always rebooted the freenas and the problem was solved for the day. Well I figured let me reboot the router this time and the freenas magically started working again. Which would explain why the other identical server is fine, it is behind a really high end Buffalo router.

Unfortunately this does not solve my problem, I can not simple swap the router out because of a pretty complex setup and VPN issues I would prefer to avoid.

Has anyone run into this problem? I guess the freenas box could still be the issue, just resetting the router somehow temporarily fixes it.

 

[peterh]

So far everything on the freenas seems to be running great, till it randomly locks up. The zfs pool is healthy, the server as 16gigs of memory and when i check processes only about 600mb are being used. And during heavy file transfers when i try to stress the server a will only get 15% CPU usage.

some new information, I am running a cisco small business router(rv120w) and I have always rebooted the freenas and the problem was solved for the day. Well I figured let me reboot the router this time and the freenas magically started working again. Which would explain why the other identical server is fine, it is behind a really high end Buffalo router.

Unfortunately this does not solve my problem, I can not simple swap the router out because of a pretty complex setup and VPN issues I would prefer to avoid.

Has anyone run into this problem? I guess the freenas box could still be the issue, just resetting the router somehow temporarily fixes it.

it seems that the non-cisco cisco is your problem. Do you have a video and keyboard connected to the freenas ?
Does local commands ( ps top systat ) works as usual? Does netstat -a hang ? That would indicate failure
to communicate with outside, thus problems with the non-cisco.
If the problems are related to the non-cisco the next question is : is it a level-2 thing ( ethernet drops or
errors,arp failure) or is it a level-3 thing ( inablilty to pass through to other destinations ).

You mentioned VPN, is the freenas one of the systems passing through the VPN ?