From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 26 21:25:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3854D16A412 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:25:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@fqdn.net) Received: from host.fqdn.net (host.fqdn.net [194.242.157.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF11843D45 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:25:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@fqdn.net) Received: by host.fqdn.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id D24CD4A; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:25:08 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:25:08 +0100 From: Sam Eaton To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060926212508.GQ87198@host.fqdn.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org References: <1158937842.13412.32.camel@bigapple.omnis.ch> <20060922152208.GH87198@host.fqdn.net> <1159254230.14334.3.camel@oli2.insign.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1159254230.14334.3.camel@oli2.insign.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Re: Is there anyone successfully running freebsd on a dell poweredge 1950? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:25:11 -0000 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. -- "Fortified with Essential Bitterness and Sarcasm" Matt Groening, "Binky's Guide to Love".