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Craig Leres wrote:

I've attached two serial console stack traces.

Here's one more crash from a few minutes ago, that's the 2nd in about 12 hours. I guess I'll swap to my spare SG-1100...

I have seen the same thing on my 1100 but given the timing (could be hours, days, or even weeks between timeouts) it feels more like hardware to me. I'm also using ZFS here. I have mine on a PDU I can control remotely so I just power it off and back on and it will run again for another period of time. I can't 100% say it's hardware but that seems most likely given that some people never see this and a handful of other people see it at seemingly random intervals.

This may be a coincidence but I haven't seen a timeout in the last two weeks or so, the main recent things I did were a complete wipe+reload and also I ran zpool upgrade -a, both of those were done as a part of testing unrelated things internally, so it's possible it's a complete coincidence. As long as you have backups and a recovery image handy, that should be safe to try and at least see if it makes a difference. I don't see why it would, but there isn't anything to lose by trying it.

Even though it's potentially hardware-related I'll leave this open for a bit in case the other devs notice a pattern that might indicate it's driver related instead.

Another update after another 2 weeks on 23.05 with my 1100, still have yet to see another timeout. It was happening fairly regularly on 23.01 on this same device so I'm hoping that does mean it was a driver issue addressed upstream.

At this point, if it is a driver issue it's been solved, and if it's hardware it's not something we can fix with an update, so either way there is nothing actionable to keep this issue open and waiting on.

We'll have public 23.05 snapshots coming soon in advance of the release, when they are available you can upgrade and see if things stabilize for you as well.