Ignite server and make_sys_image

[T G Manikandan]

Also,keep an eye on the NFS version used.IT should be nfsv3.

Also keep a note on ULIMIT

[Luke Bell]

Hi TG

ok the syslogs are clear of any errors on the servers that are failing or the ignite server.

I will upgrade my gzip version after I ve finished the upgrade of the ignite software.

I was going to have to upgrade this anyway as we have new servers running a newer version of ignite.

I will then look to upgrade gzip

with the ulimit its set to unlimited on the client but set to 4194303 i will look into this setting more but this should be ok.

[T G Manikandan]

what is the output of

#gzip -V
#which gzip

[T G Manikandan]

Also make sure the archive //(source & destination)// file system are enabled with large files.

[Cheryl Griffin]

Luke,
This does not look like an actual gzip problem.
This could be an NFS filesystem issue. make_sys_image is unable to actually do the writing of the archive due to an NFS issue.
What is this client (model/os)?
With what access/permissions was the filesystem exported?

[Luke Bell]

Cheryl

i would be surprised also if its a gzip issue as i can gzip the fille locally.

The client is a rp5470 running hpux 11.00

The filesystem was exported on the ignite server with read/write access for the client system only.

This is the same for all the systems backing up to the ignite server (30 servers) I only have this problem on three though,

I am thinking it could be an nfs issue as when i do a dmesg on one of the clients i get the following errors (helcis is the ignite server)

NFS server helcis not responding still trying
NFS server helcis ok
NFS server helcis not responding still trying
NFS server helcis ok
NFS server helcis not responding still trying
NFS server helcis ok
WARNING: nfs3write: server wrote 139264, requested was 8192
NFS server helcis not responding still trying
NFS server helcis ok
WARNING: nfs3write: server wrote 139264, requested was 8192

[Luke Bell]

Ive now upgrade to the latest version of ignite 5.1.33 and it all seems to work, ill have to see if those nfs issue are actually issues.

thanks for your help.

[Meir Dukhan]

Hi Luke,

Could you please tell me where did you get Ignite version 5.1.33 ?
What I can see from http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/download.html is only the 4.4.30 version.

Thanks,

-- Meir

[Cheryl Griffin]

It is on the application disks.

[Meir Dukhan]

Thanks a lot Cherryl,

Following is a summary of my experiences and also my conclusions.

My ignite server and clients are all 11.0.
In short, I get it work only when I allow Largefiles on the exported filesystem by the Ignite server.
I test this on clients with/without:
. Pax patch (PHCO_25418)
. gzip >= 2 GB files

My conclusion is that only enabling largefiles on the filesystem solved the problem.

ps: I am a newbye to ITRC, would one of you tell me how to assign points ?

Thanks,

-- Meir