Running 9.2.0.1 – Shigawire (revision 972) on some supermicro server with an Intel Xeon.

Noticed that I wasn’t receiving my weekly status emails so I finally got around to checking it out (system is running as a backup of a backup for my personal files, so not the end of the world if it doesn’t work right).

Logged in via the web interface and didn’t notice anything really going on except that out of the 4 available cores on the processor 2 were maxing out at 100%. Process listing showed smartctl was the culprit. Went into the ZFS settings (forgot no smart settings in there), and then tried to load up the Disk > Management area. No go – spinning and spinning.

Logged in using SSH to restart the web services
/etc/rc.d/lighttpd restart

Back in business, but then the Disk > Management area was once again crashing it out.

Issued a kill -s HUP thePIDhere. They came right back.

Rebooted the server. Smartctl was still coming up eating all of my available CPU time for reports.

I ended up renaming the smartctl bin file and then killing the processes.
It’s located /usr/local/sbin, then mv smartctl to smartctl.old or something

From there I could load the Disk > Management page again and disable smart monitoring.

And yes, the disks have all checked OK.