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> In-Reply-To: <20060926212508.GQ87198@host.fqdn.net> References: <1158937842.13412.32.camel@bigapple.omnis.ch> <20060922152208.GH87198@host.fqdn.net> <1159254230.14334.3.camel@oli2.insign.local> <20060926212508.GQ87198@host.fqdn.net>
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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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