Gary,
I'm fighting the same battle on two new 2850's and two 1850's; "Interrupt
storm detected on "irq18:uhci2"; throttling interrupt source".
These machines have 2GB of ram and I using the i386 5.4Rel. version.
This happens
right after the reboot at the end of an install from CD. I've chosen to
install "all",
and bring up the ethernet interface. When I get the message, the
machine is unresponsive
to keyboard input or pings; basically frozen. I also tried 5.3 Rel.
with the same results.
From searching the lists I concluded disabling USB might be worth
trying, so I did that
in the BIOS. I'm still getting the same message and freeze.
How are you disabling USB? It seems that has worked for you.
One tidbit, they have the DRAC 4/I remote access controller cards in
them, but I have no
reason to believe they're involved at this point. Oh, and firmware is
current throughout.
Thanks for any hints.
Dave Barnett
Gary Schrock wrote:
At 05:05 AM 6/1/2005, you wrote:
I have checked on the DELL site for any updates to the BIOS/Firmware
and the
2 PE2850's are running the latest versions.
BIOS A02
Dell Backplane Firmware, v.1.00, A00
Dell BMC Firmware, v.1.23, A03
LSI Logic Perc 4e/Di, v.516A, A01
Both machines have the same symptoms or the reboots at random times.
I have now disabled the USB via rc.conf to see if the reboots still
occur.
On one machine I shall drop the PAE kernel and see if that increases the
stability
We've been running a 2850 with dual processors for a while now,
although we're only running 2G of ram. I'm also running the i386
verson of freebsd instead of amd64 (since I couldn't decide whether
I'd really gain anything by running that version, especially with my
low ram amount). We did initially have a problem with our add-on
perc4 controller, but that was obviously a problem with that
controller, but after that was resolved, the only issue I've had with
it is the usb interrupt storms. Since we don't use usb on that
system, I've just completely disabled it. After that, it's run
flawlessly for about 6 months now.
Regards
Danny
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vinny Abello
Sent: 01 June 2005 05:10
To: Danny Cooper
Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: RE: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4
What BIOS revision are you running in your 2850? Make sure all your
firmware is up to date. I had problems with an slightly older Dell
2650 trying to install FreeBSD until I flashed the latest RAID
controller firmware. If this doesn't help, try running some
diagnostics on the hardware. Dell has some pretty extensive
utilities. I think you can boot a Dell diagnostic CD you download
from their web site. It's possible you have bad RAM.
At 11:50 AM 5/31/2005, Danny Cooper wrote:
>With the kernel I removed all non-required devices
>
>Firewire, usb all the NIC's except em and removed all RAID and SCSI
>controllers to make sure nothing would interfere.
>
>I tried to boot with the AMD64 CD but with no success, the machine just
>hangs when it tries to load the CD, still trying to work out a
solution to
>the problem, but it just seems these DELL 2850 machines are for
Windows or
>RedHat!!!
>
>DC
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Claus Guttesen
>Sent: 31 May 2005 16:15
>To: Danny Cooper
>Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4
>
> > I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 RELEASE and upgraded to -STABLE on a
DELL
> > PE2850.
> >
> > FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #1: Wed May 25 23:43:12 BST 2005
> > CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz (3192.22-MHz 686-class CPU)
> > real memory = 5100273664 (4864 MB)
> > avail memory = 4189892608 (3995 MB)
> > MPTable: <DELL PE 016D >
> > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
> > cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0
> > cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 6
> > amr0: <LSILogic PERC 4e/Di> Firmware 516A, BIOS H418, 256MB RAM
> >
> > I have disabled ACPI HTT and enabled PAE to make the whole system
memory
> > available.
> >
> > However the problem I have is the system can crash at any moment,
and is
>not
> > load related. As the crash info below is when the machine was in
an 100%
> > idle state.
>
>I have the same hardware as well, running on the i386-port. I have
>disabled usb with usbd_enable="NO" in /etc/rc.conf. I have no idea
>whether this helps but havent't had an issue with the 2850. Except
>with a qlogic-hba and the isp-driver (I suspect) *on* amd64, but *not*
>on i386.
>
>Claus
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