Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 19:22:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@ohoyer.de> To: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-hardware <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: looking for a FreeBSD hardware solution for a web server farm Message-ID: <20040502192039.D74125@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> In-Reply-To: <20040502091635.GA32358@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> References: <F8D64E826F24B34A91BF457EF0E68704054625F9@exchange-1.cadmus.com> <20040502091635.GA32358@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
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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)
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