From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 25 12:21:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1717C16A416 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:21:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peo@intersonic.se) Received: from neonpark.inter-sonic.com (neonpark.inter-sonic.com [212.247.8.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5763F43D7D for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:21:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peo@intersonic.se) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at inter-sonic.com Message-ID: <4517C9AE.6000107@intersonic.se> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:21:02 +0200 From: Per olof Ljungmark Organization: Intersonic AB User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: DL380G2 instability X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:21:12 -0000 Hi, I have tried now for some time to get FBSD running on a couple of DL380G2 with dual PIII 1.4G but never got it right. The boxes are identical in both hw setup and the way they behave so I figured this may be FreeBSD related, not a hardware fault. Proliant DL380G2, 1G RAM, RAID5, built-in controller and nic's. Tried 6.1-REL, 6-STABLE and -current as of a couple of weeks ago. To sum it up: 1) ACPI and SMP enabled. The systems will do spontaneous reboots, the more work they do the more often it happens. 2) ACPI disabled, SMP enabled. Systems will lock up hard as soon as any serious work is done like compiling. Requires power cycling. 3) Uniprocessor seems ok at all times. Have tried aslo various settings for MPTable+OS in BIOS but not much of a change. Changed IRQ's. Reset BIOS. Anyone out there who has this model running SMP OK? TIA for any help, Per olof From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 25 12:30:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94DBC16A40F for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:30:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kama@pvp.se) Received: from ms1.as.pvp.se (dns.pvp.se [213.64.187.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CB0F43D49 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:30:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kama@pvp.se) Received: by ms1.as.pvp.se (Postfix, from userid 1001) id F02F0AA; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:30:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ms1.as.pvp.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8D56A9; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:30:19 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:30:19 +0200 (CEST) From: kama X-X-Sender: kama@ns1.as.pvp.se To: Per olof Ljungmark In-Reply-To: <4517C9AE.6000107@intersonic.se> Message-ID: <20060925142639.Q38572@ns1.as.pvp.se> References: <4517C9AE.6000107@intersonic.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DL380G2 instability X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:30:22 -0000 Have you used "Linux" as the OS configuration in the bios? I had to switch from "Other" to "Linux" to get SMP to work properly. Also try to use 5.x to see if it runs better. I have had a G3 that runs solid on 5.5, but when installing 6.1 I get reboots when loaded. /Bjorn On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > Hi, > > I have tried now for some time to get FBSD running on a couple of > DL380G2 with dual PIII 1.4G but never got it right. The boxes are > identical in both hw setup and the way they behave so I figured this may > be FreeBSD related, not a hardware fault. > > Proliant DL380G2, 1G RAM, RAID5, built-in controller and nic's. > Tried 6.1-REL, 6-STABLE and -current as of a couple of weeks ago. > > > To sum it up: > > 1) ACPI and SMP enabled. The systems will do spontaneous reboots, the > more work they do the more often it happens. > > 2) ACPI disabled, SMP enabled. Systems will lock up hard as soon as any > serious work is done like compiling. Requires power cycling. > > 3) Uniprocessor seems ok at all times. > > Have tried aslo various settings for MPTable+OS in BIOS but not much of > a change. Changed IRQ's. Reset BIOS. > > Anyone out there who has this model running SMP OK? > > TIA for any help, > > Per olof > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-proliant > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-proliant-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 25 13:12:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71F4316A4F1 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:12:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peo@intersonic.se) Received: from neonpark.inter-sonic.com (neonpark.inter-sonic.com [212.247.8.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E77443D5A for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:12:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peo@intersonic.se) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at inter-sonic.com Message-ID: <4517D5CF.8050008@intersonic.se> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:12:47 +0200 From: Per olof Ljungmark Organization: Intersonic AB User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kama References: <4517C9AE.6000107@intersonic.se> <20060925142639.Q38572@ns1.as.pvp.se> In-Reply-To: <20060925142639.Q38572@ns1.as.pvp.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DL380G2 instability X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:12:55 -0000 Hi Bjorn, Yes, I have tried "Linux" from the BIOS setup. As for 5.5, yes it would probably work but the 5 series will not get any further in development and there are things done for 6- and -current that I would like to benefit from. Seems like the only solution is running single processor... kama wrote: > Have you used "Linux" as the OS configuration in the bios? > > I had to switch from "Other" to "Linux" to get SMP to work properly. > > Also try to use 5.x to see if it runs better. I have had a G3 that runs > solid on 5.5, but when installing 6.1 I get reboots when loaded. > > /Bjorn > > On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have tried now for some time to get FBSD running on a couple of >> DL380G2 with dual PIII 1.4G but never got it right. The boxes are >> identical in both hw setup and the way they behave so I figured this may >> be FreeBSD related, not a hardware fault. >> >> Proliant DL380G2, 1G RAM, RAID5, built-in controller and nic's. >> Tried 6.1-REL, 6-STABLE and -current as of a couple of weeks ago. >> >> >> To sum it up: >> >> 1) ACPI and SMP enabled. The systems will do spontaneous reboots, the >> more work they do the more often it happens. >> >> 2) ACPI disabled, SMP enabled. Systems will lock up hard as soon as any >> serious work is done like compiling. Requires power cycling. >> >> 3) Uniprocessor seems ok at all times. >> >> Have tried aslo various settings for MPTable+OS in BIOS but not much of >> a change. Changed IRQ's. Reset BIOS. >> >> Anyone out there who has this model running SMP OK? >> >> TIA for any help, >> >> Per olof >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-proliant >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-proliant-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 25 13:26:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1AF116A403 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:26:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cs@schug.net) Received: from schug.net (s0.schug.net [194.97.148.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 896D243D46 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:26:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cs@schug.net) Received: by schug.net (Postfix, from userid 10000) id D9DEFC5529; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:26:26 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:26:26 +0200 From: Christoph Schug To: Per olof Ljungmark Message-ID: <20060925132626.GG26539@voodoo.schug.net> References: <4517C9AE.6000107@intersonic.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4517C9AE.6000107@intersonic.se> Organization: SpaceNet AG User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 OpenPKG/2.5 Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DL380G2 instability X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:26:29 -0000 On Mon, Sep 25, 2006, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > I have tried now for some time to get FBSD running on a couple of > DL380G2 with dual PIII 1.4G but never got it right. The boxes are > identical in both hw setup and the way they behave so I figured this may > be FreeBSD related, not a hardware fault. [...] > Anyone out there who has this model running SMP OK? I've got several DL380 G2 running 6-STABLE and 6.1-RELEASE without any hitch, both in UP and SMP configurations. ACPI is disabled, OS set to 'Linux'. Other BIOS settings are default, firmware levels are as of Proliant Software Maintenance CD 7.40. I would rather guess you encountered a hardware issue (faulty power supply; non-identical stepping of CPUs?). OTOH as you're talking about a couple of machines, this is not very likely. Are you sure, your servers have got the redundant fan kit in place as this is mandatory for SMP operations? -cs From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 25 13:47:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 237E216A4C2 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:47:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peo@intersonic.se) Received: from neonpark.inter-sonic.com (neonpark.inter-sonic.com [212.247.8.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B127344018 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:43:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peo@intersonic.se) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at inter-sonic.com Message-ID: <4517DCE3.2090206@intersonic.se> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:42:59 +0200 From: Per olof Ljungmark Organization: Intersonic AB User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org References: <4517C9AE.6000107@intersonic.se> <20060925132626.GG26539@voodoo.schug.net> In-Reply-To: <20060925132626.GG26539@voodoo.schug.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: DL380G2 instability X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:47:42 -0000 Christoph Schug wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2006, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > >> I have tried now for some time to get FBSD running on a couple of >> DL380G2 with dual PIII 1.4G but never got it right. The boxes are >> identical in both hw setup and the way they behave so I figured this may >> be FreeBSD related, not a hardware fault. > [...] >> Anyone out there who has this model running SMP OK? > > I've got several DL380 G2 running 6-STABLE and 6.1-RELEASE without any > hitch, both in UP and SMP configurations. ACPI is disabled, OS set to > 'Linux'. Other BIOS settings are default, firmware levels are as of > Proliant Software Maintenance CD 7.40. > > I would rather guess you encountered a hardware issue (faulty power > supply; non-identical stepping of CPUs?). OTOH as you're talking about a > couple of machines, this is not very likely. Are you sure, your servers > have got the redundant fan kit in place as this is mandatory for SMP > operations? Hi Christoph, Yes, got the fan kit and CPU's are same stepping and it is two identical boxes. As most people seem to be ok with "Linux" as the BIOS setting this is what I have used for most of the time. Firmware levels are at 7.50 but I don't think there are any updates for this box between 7.40 and .50. Have even switched power supplies, both boxes have redundant psu's. I guess I should try 5-STABLE SMP, if that works the probability of hw fault would be minimal but then again I'm back to square one in terms of what the problem could be. Per olof From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 25 16:13:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9198516A407 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:13:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kama@pvp.se) Received: from ms1.as.pvp.se (dns.pvp.se [213.64.187.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 181BF43D46 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:13:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kama@pvp.se) Received: by ms1.as.pvp.se (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 12677A9; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:13:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ms1.as.pvp.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E1D3A7; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:13:29 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:13:29 +0200 (CEST) From: kama X-X-Sender: kama@ns1.as.pvp.se To: Per olof Ljungmark In-Reply-To: <4517DCE3.2090206@intersonic.se> Message-ID: <20060925174144.R39281@ns1.as.pvp.se> References: <4517C9AE.6000107@intersonic.se> <20060925132626.GG26539@voodoo.schug.net> <4517DCE3.2090206@intersonic.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DL380G2 instability X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:13:31 -0000 On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > Christoph Schug wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 25, 2006, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > > > >> I have tried now for some time to get FBSD running on a couple of > >> DL380G2 with dual PIII 1.4G but never got it right. The boxes are > >> identical in both hw setup and the way they behave so I figured this may > >> be FreeBSD related, not a hardware fault. > > [...] > >> Anyone out there who has this model running SMP OK? > > > > I've got several DL380 G2 running 6-STABLE and 6.1-RELEASE without any > > hitch, both in UP and SMP configurations. ACPI is disabled, OS set to > > 'Linux'. Other BIOS settings are default, firmware levels are as of > > Proliant Software Maintenance CD 7.40. > > > > I would rather guess you encountered a hardware issue (faulty power > > supply; non-identical stepping of CPUs?). OTOH as you're talking about a > > couple of machines, this is not very likely. Are you sure, your servers > > have got the redundant fan kit in place as this is mandatory for SMP > > operations? > > Hi Christoph, > > Yes, got the fan kit and CPU's are same stepping and it is two identical > boxes. As most people seem to be ok with "Linux" as the BIOS setting > this is what I have used for most of the time. Firmware levels are at > 7.50 but I don't think there are any updates for this box between 7.40 > and .50. Have even switched power supplies, both boxes have redundant psu's. > > I guess I should try 5-STABLE SMP, if that works the probability of hw > fault would be minimal but then again I'm back to square one in terms of > what the problem could be. The reason of checking 5-STABLE, is that I have encounter problems w DL380 and 6-STABLE (mine are all G3's). But I could not get any real info out of it and could not proceed to make a report. Mine just rebooted (power cycled), like if someone pulled the powercables and put them in again. So nothing in the log, and no dump in /var/crash (Yes, I specified it.). The ilo only reports a power cycle. What I do know is that it happens more often with high IO load. Network of 200-300Mbps in and out, a lot of memory and disk activity. One other thing I noticed was that they mostly occured at 00, 15, 30 or 45. (according to logs and ilo) But I could not see anything in cron, logrotate or anything that could cause it to boot at those times. I disabled the checks for server overload in the bios settings and still the power cycled. But it couldnt have been a problem with the hardware, since with 5-STABLE it can run for months without problems and with 6-STABLE it can crash anywhere from 2 hours to a week. Sometimes it can crash several times in one day and then be stable and fine for a week. If you get a solid 5-STABLE and the 6-STABLE is still a problem, it will be one more than me (that I know of) that have encounter problems. As my boxes are in production, I cannot switch to 6-STABLE just to test things. So if you are able to do all the steps that needs to be done and post a problem report, it would be great, from my point of view. And then I can only hope that it is the same issue. /Bjorn From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 25 18:41:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 222B716A403 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:41:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jas@math.jussieu.fr) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E39143D49 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:41:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jas@math.jussieu.fr) Received: from riemann.math.jussieu.fr (riemann.math.jussieu.fr [134.157.13.3]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.13.7/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id k8PIfNK5032613 ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:41:23 +0200 (CEST) X-Ids: 168 Received: from cantor.math.jussieu.fr (cantor.math.jussieu.fr [134.157.13.2]) by riemann.math.jussieu.fr (8.13.8/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id k8PIfLbR057409 ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:41:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cantor.math.jussieu.fr (jas@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cantor.math.jussieu.fr (8.13.1/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id k8PIfLjC054980 ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:41:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from jas@localhost) by cantor.math.jussieu.fr (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id k8PIfLDH054978; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:41:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jas) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:41:21 +0200 From: Albert Shih To: kama Message-ID: <20060925184121.GC48747@math.jussieu.fr> References: <4517C9AE.6000107@intersonic.se> <20060925132626.GG26539@voodoo.schug.net> <4517DCE3.2090206@intersonic.se> <20060925174144.R39281@ns1.as.pvp.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20060925174144.R39281@ns1.as.pvp.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Spam-Score: 0.001 () UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 134.157.13.3 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.168]); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:41:23 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.2/1943/Mon Sep 25 16:22:29 2006 on shiva.jussieu.fr X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Miltered: at shiva.jussieu.fr with ID 451822D3.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DL380G2 instability X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: shih@math.jussieu.fr List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:41:27 -0000 Le 25/09/2006 18:13:29+0200, kama a écrit > > > On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > > > The reason of checking 5-STABLE, is that I have encounter problems w DL380 > and 6-STABLE (mine are all G3's). But I could not get any real info out of > it and could not proceed to make a report. Mine just rebooted (power > cycled), like if someone pulled the powercables and put them in again. So > nothing in the log, and no dump in /var/crash (Yes, I specified it.). > The ilo only reports a power cycle. > > What I do know is that it happens more often with high IO load. Network of > 200-300Mbps in and out, a lot of memory and disk activity. One other thing > I noticed was that they mostly occured at 00, 15, 30 or 45. (according to > logs and ilo) But I could not see anything in cron, logrotate or anything > that could cause it to boot at those times. I disabled the checks for > server overload in the bios settings and still the power cycled. But it > couldnt have been a problem with the hardware, since with 5-STABLE it can > run for months without problems and with 6-STABLE it can crash anywhere > from 2 hours to a week. Sometimes it can crash several times in one day > and then be stable and fine for a week. > > If you get a solid 5-STABLE and the 6-STABLE is still a problem, it will > be one more than me (that I know of) that have encounter problems. As my > boxes are in production, I cannot switch to 6-STABLE just to test things. > So if you are able to do all the steps that needs to be done and post a > problem report, it would be great, from my point of view. And then I can > only hope that it is the same issue. > I've ML 350 G3 running FreeBSD 6.0, and 6.(0)-stable until, 6.1-Release after that 6.-stable, and now 6.2-PRERELEASE. Since de beginning I've very huge stability problem. This server running nfsd, and from de beginning sometime I lost the network/or freeze. Between 6.0-6(1)-stable it's nigthmare...until I found the polling method for the network interface. Now I'm running 6.2-PRERELEASE with polling and no-SMP. It's seem stable (not very stable...but...). Regards. -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques. 7 ième étage, plateau D, bureau 10 Heure local/Local time: From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 26 07:45:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC61C16A407 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:45:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peo@intersonic.se) Received: from neonpark.inter-sonic.com (neonpark.inter-sonic.com [212.247.8.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 914D943D49 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:45:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peo@intersonic.se) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at inter-sonic.com Message-ID: <4518DA92.4040007@intersonic.se> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:45:22 +0200 From: Per olof Ljungmark Organization: Intersonic AB User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kama References: <4517C9AE.6000107@intersonic.se> <20060925132626.GG26539@voodoo.schug.net> <4517DCE3.2090206@intersonic.se> <20060925174144.R39281@ns1.as.pvp.se> In-Reply-To: <20060925174144.R39281@ns1.as.pvp.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DL380G2 instability X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:45:26 -0000 kama wrote: > > If you get a solid 5-STABLE and the 6-STABLE is still a problem, it will > be one more than me (that I know of) that have encounter problems. As my > boxes are in production, I cannot switch to 6-STABLE just to test things. > So if you are able to do all the steps that needs to be done and post a > problem report, it would be great, from my point of view. And then I can > only hope that it is the same issue. > > /Bjorn Awright, I'm installing 5-STABLE now to see what gives. Discovered another interesting thing, diskinfo -tv gave me much better figures under 5.4 than 6-STABLE, don't know how reliable those figures are but it's worrying anyway. Will come back when I have enough info on running 5. From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 26 12:44:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E01F16A5FF for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:44:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peo@intersonic.se) Received: from neonpark.inter-sonic.com (neonpark.inter-sonic.com [212.247.8.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 612C643D72 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:44:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peo@intersonic.se) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at inter-sonic.com Message-ID: <451920B1.2040002@intersonic.se> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:44:33 +0200 From: Per olof Ljungmark User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: shih@math.jussieu.fr References: <4517C9AE.6000107@intersonic.se> <20060925132626.GG26539@voodoo.schug.net> <4517DCE3.2090206@intersonic.se> <20060925174144.R39281@ns1.as.pvp.se> <20060925184121.GC48747@math.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <20060925184121.GC48747@math.jussieu.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DL380G2 instability X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:44:40 -0000 Albert Shih wrote: > Now I'm running 6.2-PRERELEASE with polling and no-SMP. It's seem stable > (not very stable...but...). Albert, what is "polling"? I need to test this too - So far the install and upgrade of 5- has proven stable, I'm just about to test it with extremely high load. From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 26 14:01:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52E5616A403 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:01:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jas@math.jussieu.fr) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58C1143D5F for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:01:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jas@math.jussieu.fr) Received: from riemann.math.jussieu.fr (riemann.math.jussieu.fr [134.157.13.3]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.13.7/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id k8QE1BLo018068 ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:01:11 +0200 (CEST) X-Ids: 168 Received: from grobner1.math.jussieu.fr (galois1.math.jussieu.fr [134.157.13.116]) by riemann.math.jussieu.fr (8.13.8/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id k8QE191s097796 ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:01:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from galois1.math.jussieu.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by grobner1.math.jussieu.fr (8.13.7/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id k8QE18C1013115 ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:01:08 +0200 Received: (from jas@localhost) by galois1.math.jussieu.fr (8.13.7/8.13.7/Submit) id k8QE184K013114; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:01:08 +0200 Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:01:08 +0200 From: Albert Shih To: Per olof Ljungmark Message-ID: <20060926140108.GI2848@math.jussieu.fr> References: <4517C9AE.6000107@intersonic.se> <20060925132626.GG26539@voodoo.schug.net> <4517DCE3.2090206@intersonic.se> <20060925174144.R39281@ns1.as.pvp.se> <20060925184121.GC48747@math.jussieu.fr> <451920B1.2040002@intersonic.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <451920B1.2040002@intersonic.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-Score: 0.001 () UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 134.157.13.3 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.168]); Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:01:12 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.2/1945/Tue Sep 26 11:18:51 2006 on shiva.jussieu.fr X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Miltered: at shiva.jussieu.fr with ID 451932A7.002 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DL380G2 instability X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: shih@math.jussieu.fr List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:01:14 -0000 Le 26/09/2006 à 14:44:33+0200, Per olof Ljungmark a écrit > Albert Shih wrote: > > >Now I'm running 6.2-PRERELEASE with polling and no-SMP. It's seem stable > >(not very stable...but...). > > Albert, what is "polling"? I need to test this too - > It's special «status» of the network interface. I'm not sure to understand what's that mean but if i'm not wrong : in standard configuration it's the mothercard who manage the access of network interface In polling mode it's the CPU to manage this. One problem is there use lots of CPU... For this you must add options DEVICE_POLLING in your kernel config After installing the new kernel and reboot you need /sbin/ifconfig em0 polling and you can see in ifconfig -a em0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options=4b ^^^^^^ this.... media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX ) status: active Of course all of that need you interface support polling, and you can see in man polling : Device polling requires explicit modifications to the device drivers. As of this writing, the dc(4), em(4), fwe(4), fxp(4), ixgb(4), nge(4), re(4), rl(4), sis(4), ste(4), vge(4), and vr(4) devices are supported, with others in the works. The modifications are rather straightforward, Regards. -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques. 7 ième étage, plateau D, bureau 10 Heure local/Local time: Tue Sep 26 15:52:24 CEST 2006 From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 27 08:23:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F85416A417 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:23:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kama@pvp.se) Received: from ms1.as.pvp.se (dns.pvp.se [213.64.187.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DCB143D55 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:23:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kama@pvp.se) Received: by ms1.as.pvp.se (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C7EF5A9; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:23:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ms1.as.pvp.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3BB4A7; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:23:18 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:23:18 +0200 (CEST) From: kama X-X-Sender: kama@ns1.as.pvp.se To: Per olof Ljungmark In-Reply-To: <451920B1.2040002@intersonic.se> Message-ID: <20060927102236.P41615@ns1.as.pvp.se> References: <4517C9AE.6000107@intersonic.se> <20060925132626.GG26539@voodoo.schug.net> <4517DCE3.2090206@intersonic.se> <20060925174144.R39281@ns1.as.pvp.se> <20060925184121.GC48747@math.jussieu.fr> <451920B1.2040002@intersonic.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DL380G2 instability X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:23:23 -0000 On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > Albert Shih wrote: > > > Now I'm running 6.2-PRERELEASE with polling and no-SMP. It's seem stable > > (not very stable...but...). > > Albert, what is "polling"? I need to test this too - As always (allmost) with FreeBSD specific stuff, there is a manpage about it. man polling /Bjorn