TrueNAS Core every day or two requiring hard reboot after upgrade from 11.2U8 to 11.3U4.1

[hba]

Since upgrading from 11.2U8 to 11.3U4.1, and later updated to release 12, my NAS has run very unstable. Mostly 1 or 2 days when it becomes unresponsive and requires a hard boot. A very seldom time, it ran for about 2 weeks. Other times a couple of hours

I've tried replacing/upgrading boot-drive from USB to NVME, RAM from 8 to 16BG, network adapter from on-board to Intel I210-T1 and doubled the storage from 3 to 6TB, which didn't change a bit

I've change C-states to off. No change.

Is there any of the HW listed in my signature, that is known to cause trouble?

 

[sretalla]

I've change C-states to off. No change.

if you look at the ryzen threads, it's not only C-states, also cool 'n' quiet... re-check the threads.

Is there any of the HW listed in my signature, that is known to cause trouble?

Gaming motherboards in general, Ryzen (you would have much better results with TrueNAS on that).

 

[hba]

if you look at the ryzen threads, it's not only C-states, also cool 'n' quiet... re-check the threads.

Gaming motherboards in general, Ryzen (you would have much better results with TrueNAS on that).

I did actually check Ryzen threads and did turn off Cool'n'Quiet, but thanks

What exactly makes them bad? Better results on what?

 

[Samuel Tai]

Gaming boards tend to automatically apply an overclock without prompting. This is very bad for TrueNAS stability. If you can, disable all overclocks in your BIOS. If your board allows it, you may even want to try underclocking.

 

[hba]

Gaming boards tend to automatically apply an overclock without prompting. This is very bad for TrueNAS stability. If you can, disable all overclocks in your BIOS. If your board allows it, you may even want to try underclocking.

OK, I'll check that, but what changed from 11.2U8 to 11.3U4.1, that would make the NAS going from being rockstable to completely unstable?

 

[sretalla]

What exactly makes them bad? Better results on what?

FreeBSD 11 doesn't have as much support for Ryzen as FreeBSD 12 (TrueNAS 12 CORE) mostly because Ryzen wasn't around when 11 was being developed. I'm sure there are some sweet spots (maybe like the one you found) where things aren't as broken, but 12 should handle it a lot better and I see lots of folks in the threads saying once the power management stuff is handled, it's great.

 

[hba]

Thanks you both for your input. I've now, as much as possible, disabled all settings that controls overclocking on the motherboard, and actually I discovered, that all power save settings had reset, probably because of all the hard reboots