From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 2 10:22:52 2004 Return-Path: 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 E449E16A4CE for ; Sun, 2 May 2004 10:22:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gaff.hhhr.ision.net (gaff.hhhr.ision.net [195.180.9.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F10943D4C for ; Sun, 2 May 2004 10:22:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ohoyer@ohoyer.de) Received: from gaff.hhhr.ision.net (ohoyer@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gaff.hhhr.ision.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i42HMtMS074150; Sun, 2 May 2004 19:22:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ohoyer@ohoyer.de) Received: from localhost (ohoyer@localhost)i42HMsSF074147; Sun, 2 May 2004 19:22:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ohoyer@ohoyer.de) X-Authentication-Warning: gaff.hhhr.ision.net: ohoyer owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 19:22:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Olaf Hoyer Sender: ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net To: Peter Jeremy In-Reply-To: <20040502091635.GA32358@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> Message-ID: <20040502192039.D74125@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> References: <20040502091635.GA32358@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-hardware Subject: Re: looking for a FreeBSD hardware solution for a web server farm X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 17:22:53 -0000 On Sun, 2 May 2004, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Mon, 2004-Apr-26 17:21:35 +0200, Olaf Hoyer wrote: > >Well, Sun V60x or 65x will do, they are relabelled Intel OEM boxes, or > >HP 380 G3, nice thing, also quite sturdy. > > My experience with an HP DL380 G3 is the opposite - I get random > interrupt storms that wedged the box until I added code to force a > panic if I get more than about 5000 interrupts/sec. The NICs are > also fairly dodgy at fast-ethernet speed. > Hmm, might be also a firmware prob, there were some problems with certain versions of the Smartarry firmware. Also acpi is not that good in early version of the firmware together with early 5.x versions, that could also produce some anger. Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese)