From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 1 13:13: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.offwhite.net (home.offwhite.net [156.46.35.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 134AC37B423; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 13:12:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (brennan@localhost) by home.offwhite.net (8.9.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA61827; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 15:12:55 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 15:12:55 -0500 (CDT) From: BWS - Offwhite To: Steve Kaczkowski Cc: Jonathan Defries , "Freebsd-Isp@Freebsd. Org" , "Freebsd-Questions@Freebsd. Org" Subject: Re: Dell Poweredge 2400 In-Reply-To: <39AFFBC4.A9EC00C5@inc.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok, you are scaring the hell out of me. Is it for sure this new Dell will lock up on me under high load? I just got the new server so it can handle the high load we expect to have once our new ad campaign starts: radio, tv, billboards and busses. (i like the busses the most) Anyway, if this locks up (database server) while we are getting hit we will be hurting. Can anyone offer any help here? Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Steve Kaczkowski wrote: > Jonathan Defries wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Is anyone running FreeBSD on these servers? I want to order a couple > > for firewalls, but have not been able to check whether they run OK > > or not. > > I've talked to a couple people that have these boxes up and running and > from what they said they're running great! > > I've got 2 on order so hopefully in the next couple weeks I'll be able > to do some playing.. > > Couple things to keep in mind though.. Last I checked the PERC RAID > controllers have some firmware issues that cause the machine to > lockup under load, however Dell and AMI know about this and > are working on a fix (May be out already). > > Also there are some kernel tweaks you may have to do in order for > things to work right, specifically NAPIC = 2, NINTR = 28 I guess > with the defaults the system doesn't want to boot.. > > Hope this helps.. > > > -- > Steve Kaczkowski Time Warner Telecom IDD > steve@inc.net (414)908-9012 > http://www.inc.net (603)737-9209 Fax > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message