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Date:      Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:44:02 +0200
From:      Olivier Mueller <om-lists-bsd@omx.ch>
To:        Sam Eaton <sam@fqdn.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is there anyone successfully running freebsd on a dell poweredge 1950?
Message-ID:  <1159307042.29323.4.camel@bigapple.omnis.ch>
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On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 22:25 +0100, Sam Eaton wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 09:03:50AM +0200, Olivier Mueller wrote:
> 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.

ok, interesting. 

I just tested some things this afternoon, and copying 50GB of data
over the network (rsync-over-ssh) worked fine: nothing special in the
dmesg, beside the expected:
 pid 1511 (rsync), uid 1001 inumber 424511 on /home: filesystem full

> > 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.

ah, then you should try the patched if_bce.c sent by Paul Saab a few
weeks ago (19Jul2006):  http://yogurt.org/FreeBSD/if_bce.c   

This solved all my networking issues...

> > > 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.

Fortunately the other boxes are HP DL380 G5, which seem to work fine
with freebsd (until now :-)).

regards,
Olivier





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