Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:25:08 +0100 From: Sam Eaton <sam@fqdn.net> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there anyone successfully running freebsd on a dell poweredge 1950? Message-ID: <20060926212508.GQ87198@host.fqdn.net> In-Reply-To: <1159254230.14334.3.camel@oli2.insign.local> References: <1158937842.13412.32.camel@bigapple.omnis.ch> <20060922152208.GH87198@host.fqdn.net> <1159254230.14334.3.camel@oli2.insign.local>
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On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 09:03:50AM +0200, Olivier Mueller wrote:
> 'morning,
>
> On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 16:22 +0100, Sam Eaton wrote:
> > The patch didn't fix our network card issues - they fixed *some* of
> > them, but we still get watchdog timeouts with NFS mounts.
>
> can you reproduce them? My last tests were fine, but it was only
> http/ftp/rsync-over-ssh traffic.
Yes, probably the easiest way was to mount a drive over NFS and then
work it hard - something like bonnie++ did the trick nicely, but any
high load would do it, like building a lot of ports over NFS.
> this sounds interesting... do you still have your kernel configuration
> file somewhere? maybe it's just a small configuration issue on my
> side...
I was using a completely stock SMP kernel config.
> > Neither could we, we gave up and bought something else.
>
> Unfortunately that is not a solution for us, the box is already here.
> For me the "worst case" scenario would be to go back and use linux...
We're sending the box back to Dell :) We didn't want to go back to
Linux either.
Sam.
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