From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 26 21:44:12 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 5662216A407 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:44:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from om-lists-bsd@omx.ch) Received: from omega.omnis.ch (omega.omnis.ch [195.134.143.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E27EE43D82 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:44:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from om-lists-bsd@omx.ch) Received: (qmail 17943 invoked from network); 26 Sep 2006 21:44:02 -0000 Received: from bigapple.omnis.ch ([195.134.148.35]) by omega.omnis.ch ([195.134.143.43]) with ESMTP via TCP; 26 Sep 2006 21:44:02 -0000 From: Olivier Mueller To: Sam Eaton 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> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:44:02 +0200 Message-Id: <1159307042.29323.4.camel@bigapple.omnis.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org 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 21:44:12 -0000 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