From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Feb 22 10:29:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from freesbee.wheel.dk (freesbee.wheel.dk [193.162.159.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B51E737B6EC for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:29:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jesper@skriver.dk) Received: by freesbee.wheel.dk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2ADCC3E39; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 19:29:04 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 19:29:04 +0100 From: Jesper Skriver To: Steve Kaczkowski Cc: Stuart Henderson , "Miguel A.L. Paraz" , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Monitoring the cause of Reboots Message-ID: <20000222192904.B3227@skriver.dk> References: <20000222213608.B17354@tirad.internal.iphil.net> <20000222133737.F92704@naiad.eclipse.net.uk> <38B2CFD3.13D66A53@inc.net> <20000222182103.C917@naiad.eclipse.net.uk> <38B2D407.846159C8@inc.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <38B2D407.846159C8@inc.net>; from steve@inc.net on Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 12:23:03PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 12:23:03PM -0600, Steve Kaczkowski wrote: > > > > I've got a number of Intel N440BX boards with FXP0 and NCR0 that I'm > > > about to roll out, is there something I should know about!? > > > > They may panic or double-panic under heavy load. I only > > ever noticed this on my squid-caches (3mbps, 20-25 hits/sec). > > > > Unexpected restarts on those machines are now only seen > > rarely after switching to the higher-performance SYM driver. > > You can find more at freebsd-questions (until freefall's > > disks are happier, you may need to register for GeoCrawler > > if you would like to search the archives). > > UGH! > > What boards are you suppose to use then? Geeze, I was under the > impression that these boards were some of the highest quality > ones out there, anyone have some other suggestions before I get too > deep into these things.. Running 4.0-CURRENT (soon to be -RELEASE) we've such a box stable, but that's using the sym driver instead of ncr ... /Jesper -- Jesper Skriver, jesper(at)skriver(dot)dk - CCIE #5456 Work: Network manager @ AS3292 (Tele Danmark DataNetworks) Private: Geek @ AS2109 (A much smaller network ;-) One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message