From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 13 11:42:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E853116A4C0 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 11:42:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wbm2.pair.net (wbm2.pair.net [209.68.3.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7516743FE0 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 11:42:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjent@rjent.pair.com) Received: (qmail 54099 invoked by uid 65534); 13 Oct 2003 18:42:35 -0000 Received: from 204.184.227.254 ([204.184.227.254]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user rjent@rjent.pair.com) by webmail.pair.com with HTTP; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:42:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <11113.204.184.227.254.1066070555.squirrel@webmail.pair.com> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:42:35 -0400 (EDT) From: To: X-pair-Authenticated: 204.184.227.254 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Gateway 980 server freeze? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 18:42:40 -0000 Greetings, I am having trouble with a new Gateway 980 server. I am running fresh cvsup RELENG_4, kernel is stock except for maxusers set to 512, ipfw enabled, and smp enabled. System information is as follows: Motherboard information is located at: http://support.gateway.com/s/Servers/COMPO/MOTHERBD/4000791/4000791mv.shtml The raid card is a LSI U320 LVD 2-Channel SCSI Array Controller. Box configure with raid5 +hotswap Symptoms: Box doing internal operations all well. Upon placing load on device through NIC box freezes. Reproducible via a scp of tar files from any server on same switch. After box freezes you can eject a drive from the raid5 array and no alarms no trigger hot swap, no nothing. Additional information: Have replaced all components with RAID as well as disabled motherboard nic and added Intel® 82544 Gigabit Ethernet Controller card. Have upgraded to latest motherboard bios. Solutions that seem to cause the problem to go away: If you plug server box with stock nic into a 10mb port no freeze occurs. Replace nic with a standard pci (I used 3com905b) and not use a pci-x type nic all well and no freeze. I believe that it is an issue with the pci-x on motherboard. Any known issues or ideas on how to resolve? Many thanks. ---------- RJEnt Providing Solutions w/FreeBSD