From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 10 10:30:51 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41F19106564A for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:30:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.187.76.162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A5BF8FC2D for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:30:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from lack-of-gravitas.thebunker.net (gateway.ash.thebunker.net [213.129.64.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m3AATK9T012166 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:29:28 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.5.2 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk m3AATK9T012166 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=infracaninophile.co.uk; s=200708; t=1207823368; bh=G3Yq75qOausrA3 aUegC6EYFJTFi0sEQCH8RVO4rY1Cc=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version: To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Cc:Content-Type:Date:From:In-Reply-To: Message-ID:Mime-Version:References:To; z=Message-ID:=20<47FDEBFE.8 080602@infracaninophile.co.uk>|Date:=20Thu,=2010=20Apr=202008=2011: 29:18=20+0100|From:=20Matthew=20Seaman=20|Organization:=20Infracaninophile|User-Agent:=20Thunderbird= 202.0.0.12=20(X11/20080328)|MIME-Version:=201.0|To:=20Ross=20|CC:=20freebsd-questions@freebsd.org|Subject:=20Re: =207.0=20and=20HP=20Proliant=20DL140=20G3?|References:=20<65e9c8190 804100236h345f25b9wfef39caf162c097b@mail.gmail.com>|In-Reply-To:=20 <65e9c8190804100236h345f25b9wfef39caf162c097b@mail.gmail.com>|X-Eni gmail-Version:=200.95.0|Content-Type:=20text/plain=3B=20charset=3DU TF-8|Content-Transfer-Encoding:=207bit; b=l8K9RmB2qvq/vd18VgG/VOmgZ NXCPsl0mRYfQiufWtACo5yZnzc5NY/umT/uG52WlGCvRdQU3Ywv/IF3eXng1IJhsYgP i33s9vOc72LmJMvqKbLIvJfgPcjt5OL+1A56Cq0Vh3FHGKRE/Dq4S0T7ajoHmXfhUsv UhfHcQkWgCNQ= Message-ID: <47FDEBFE.8080602@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:29:18 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080328) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ross References: <65e9c8190804100236h345f25b9wfef39caf162c097b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <65e9c8190804100236h345f25b9wfef39caf162c097b@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.187.76.162]); Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:29:28 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/6694/Thu Apr 10 10:23:11 2008 on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VERIFIED,SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.2.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4 (2008-01-01) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.0 and HP Proliant DL140 G3? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:30:51 -0000 Ross wrote: > I am going to buy DL140 G3 (NHP-SATA) and I want FreeBSD on it. I found some > reports of boot loader crashes, disk and ethernet performance issues among > with this PR: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/78339 > Most of that happened with 5.x and 6.x. Has anyone had any problems with > 7.0-RELEASE on it? We've a number of these machines running 7.0 -- they're generally fine, except: *) There's no way of monitoring the status of the built-in mpt RAID (so we just configure it as a pair of drives and use gmirror) *) Disk IO performance is pretty bad unless you set hw.mpt.enable_sata_wc=1 in /boot/loader.conf -- but be aware this could potentially lead to data loss given certain scenarios. (I think this is no worse than the other types of drive where write caching is enabled by default under FreeBSD but ICBW) You might find the freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org mailing list of interest. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. Flat 3 7 Priory Courtyard PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW, UK