Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:24:57 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: eniazi@ossmail.com, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: anyone successfully using an icp-vortex / iir controller? Message-ID: <43FEC2D9.7090407@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20060224064125.GA1782@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <3.0.1.32.20060222094147.00a928a0@pop.redshift.com> <20060224021327.H1005@ganymede.hub.org> <20060224064125.GA1782@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 02:13:56AM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >>I run an IIR controller on one of our servers just fine ... 4GB of RAM, >>FreeBSD 4.x ... haven't tried 6.x on it yet ... > > > It's known to be broken on any system with >4GB of RAM. > > Kris > > I'll strengthen that statement and say that it is completely, 100% unusable with 4GB of RAM or more. You are guaranteed to get data corruption on the second I/O that you send. Fixing this requires re-writing much of the driver, unfortunately. Scott
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