Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 20:35:05 -0500 From: Jim Durham <durham@jcdurham.com> To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Dell Poweredge 2650 reboots Message-ID: <200401242035.05684.durham@jcdurham.com>
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Hi, I hope this isn't old news, but I can't find exactly this problem in the archives.... I'm getting mysterious reboots on new Dell Poweredge 2650 servers with SMP kernels on dual Xeons. I've been running FreeBSD at our place since 3.2 and I was proud of the fact that in I've only ever had one reboot in almost 5 years and that was a flakey drive. This was running on a motley collection of old single-processor boxes which we are replacing with the Dells. The first Dell went on line in the fall as our mailserver and went for about 3 months and then suddenly rebooted for no reason at all. No error message, no panics, no log entries. It was like you pushed the power button. I was bringing the next box on line as a file server and was halfway through copying about 65 gigs of files to it when it suddenly did the same thing. It also did it one more time when I resumed copying after the reboot. I see lots of mentions of reboots with SMP/FreeBSD, but nothing that fits my case exactly. The really embarrasing thing is that we also have two 2650's running..er..um...Windows 2000 server..there I said it... and they have managed to stay up except for the usual forced reboots to install stuff, etc. BTW, these are RAID-1 boxes with 15K 320mhz SCSI drives and 2 gb ram. They have dual power supplies and they are on UPS power. Anyone else have Dells like this and seen this problem? Thanks, Jim
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