Re: [Pro Pioneer 6.5.1] NAS becomes unresponsive after random interval
I also haven't had any crashes since my previous post a month ago. The system is running 6.6.1 as before, and nothing else has changed. The only thing I can think of is that there is less backup/synching being done now than before.
Re: [Pro Pioneer 6.5.1] NAS becomes unresponsive after random interval
I too have had this exact same issue rear it's ugly head on numerous occassions with my ReadyNAS Pro 6 NAS since upgrading to OS 6.x (currently on 6.8.0 and it's still occuring).
Anyone ever find a solution to this? It's frustrating to say the least.
Re: [Pro Pioneer 6.5.1] NAS becomes unresponsive after random interval
Up until recently, I had 4 ProBE/Pro6 models running 6.x and had only one crash I can recall over an 18 month period. Two ran continuously and the other two came on nightly for backup. I did have 2GB of RAM in the backup systems and 4GB in the active ones, which may have made a difference.
Re: [Pro Pioneer 6.5.1] NAS becomes unresponsive after random interval
Oh, interesting. I've just ordered a 2 x 2GB RAM kit, so I'll see how it performs with the additional RAM. It's currently loaded with the stock 1GB. Fingers crossed.
My pro-6 isn't running OS-6, but I do have 2x4GB memory installed. The NAS can be quite fussy about memory, and I've never owned a Pro Pioneer. But if you post the specifics on what memory you ordered, then some other folks might be able to give you more help.
FWIW, you might want to double-check that both chips are fully seated.
Re: [Pro Pioneer 6.5.1] NAS becomes unresponsive after random interval
I have Ultra6 and Pro6 too.
With 6.8.0, Ultra6 is stable, (now 26 days, 22 hours, 20 minutes, last restart was because of change the UPS battery, not crash)
Pro6 crashing after 1-3 day. (E7500 CPU, 2x1GB DDR2-800 RAM). And I found, the chipset (big silver heatsink) is very-very hot. Moreless untouchable. I have 2pcs 40x40x20 COOLTEK CT-SILENT FAN4020 on this heatsink, directly powered from molex,and still 70-75 celsius.
CPU temp is normal, I use a powerfull Alpenföhn Silvretta cooler on it.
When I used under ReadyOS 4.2.31, it was colder. Not just the sensor temp show it, I felt it to with my finger. Maybe 20-25 celsius colder.
Maybe the chipset controll have problems in the OS6? And affected on Core2 and Pentium based stuff only, but not the Atom maybe.
After my update to 6.6.1 (27-04-2017) I only had one restart, which was a manual reboot because there was a network issue (unrelated to the unresponsiveness).
Right now it has been up voor 14 days again. It _seems_ that the problem went away (or at least it is much less frequent). But I'll only celebrate when it hits a 30+ day uptime again.
Just to reply on myself;
It's almost 5 months later, and after upgrading to 6.6.1, the problems seemed have gone away. I had continued to run 6.6.1 for a while and hadn't had any problems since. I had done a full factory reset last month (went from raid-6 to raid-5, which was unrelated to the problem though).
In my situation the upgrade to 6.6.1 resolved the issue. But based on other threads, it doesn't feel like it explicitly fixed an issue. Ive seen new updates which helped others, but didnt help mine. And I expect that this version fixed mine, but probably doesn't fix issues for others.
Re: [Pro Pioneer 6.5.1] NAS becomes unresponsive after random interval
I don't thnk that's it. I have E7400's in mine, and don't have that issue. Having only 1GB of RAM might be a bigger problem, as all native OS6.x machines have 2GB.
Re: [Pro Pioneer 6.5.1] NAS becomes unresponsive after random interval
I've upgraded both the RAM and the CPU in my Pro 6 quite some time ago, before 6.x was even available. My NAS was completely stable on 6.x until after one of the point version upgrades. I don't remember exactly, but I think 6.2-something was the last time it worked 100%.
Everything I've been able to find about this issue points to an ethernet driver problem. It's either that or I have failing hardware, but that seems highly unlikely.
Re: [Pro Pioneer 6.5.1] NAS becomes unresponsive after random interval
I tried testing with disc-change.
Primary setup: 2x4TB WD_Red + 4x3TB WD_Red, all in a Raid5/X-RAID. All disc 100% health, no bad sector or any other error
Secondary setup: 6x500GB mixed drive (WD Blue, WD Green, Seagate Barracuda,Toshiba, Hitachi, Samsung), all in a Raid5/X-RAID. 3 disc health 100%, other 3 have bad sectors, Samsung is only 22% in HDSentinel.
With the Secondary setup, my NAS worked 15day without error.
than I changed to Primary this morning.
Now 21:59, 6crash today.
I tested all of discs in primary, with WD Diagnostic, with HD sentinel, no error.
Re: [Pro Pioneer 6.5.1] NAS becomes unresponsive after random interval
As best I have been able to tell, the Pro RAM is not dual channel. So other than having less, only using one slot should not affect performance. Hope that fixes your problem.
Re: [Pro Pioneer 6.5.1] NAS becomes unresponsive after random interval
After much gnashing of teeth and rending of clothing, having had this issue with my Pro 6 for well over a year now, I believe I've finally stopped the intermittent crashing.
Solution: I disabled IPv6 everywhere I could find to do so. Did it in the GUI, tried to disable the kernel module, every possible way I could think of. Since I've done this, I've seen uptime of almost 40 days. Prior to this, I never got to 20 days without a crash.
I've posted in this thread about this and in a few others that seem like they might be the same symptoms. Check my post history if the details interest you. At this point I'm pretty sure it's the combination of the NIC, the ethernet driver, and IPv6 being enabled. I wasn't using IPv6, so it didn't matter to me if it was turned off. I'd love to hear if this fixes issues for anyone else. If you don't need IPv6, turn it off, see if it helps.
