Re: Which FreeBSD is the most stable for Dell PowerEdge 2850

2006-07-05 Thread Dan Charrois
I don't have any 2850's but the 1850 I have has been running 6.0 since the BETA1, and last night just upgraded it to 6.1. No issues. The PERC 4e/Si card is phenominally fast on this system (running 2 disk RAID1). I'd recommend you to run 6.1 as it is stable on all of my Dell systems that run it

Which FreeBSD is the most stable for Dell PowerEdge 2850

2006-06-30 Thread Dan Charrois
Hi everyone. I'm currently running the following: Hardware: Dell PowerEdge 2850 rack mounted server, Dual 3.4 Ghz Xeon, 5 Gb memory Hard Drives: LSILogic PERC 4e/Di, configured as RAID 5, with 3 X 40 Gb disks OS: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p6 for amd64 It's sole purpose is to be an SQL server, an

Re: FreeBSD unstable on Dell 1750 using SMP?

2005-11-30 Thread Dan Charrois
precaution to improve the stability.. Thanks for your help! Dan On Nov 29, 2005, at 10:50 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Dan Charrois wrote: It actually may be a comfort, since perhaps HTT is related to the culprit. Since the last crash, about a month ago, I disabled HTT, both

Re: FreeBSD unstable on Dell 1750 using SMP?

2005-11-29 Thread Dan Charrois
Rutger Bevaart wrote: Same here on several 1750's, 1850's and 2850's. Tomorrow I'll disable USB in the BIOS on one of the 1750's and see if it makes a difference. It's the only one of the set that I could get downtime for because it rebooted yesterday ;-) I've disabled USB in the BIOS on

Re: FreeBSD unstable on Dell 1750 using SMP?

2005-11-29 Thread Dan Charrois
Thanks everyone for replies made over the past few days about the "unsolicited" rebooting problem. At first, I thought there was a memory allocation bug as judged by the output of "netstat -m", but apparently it's just a cosmetic statistics reporting bug and nothing related to the instabil

Re: FreeBSD unstable on Dell 1750 using SMP?

2005-11-24 Thread Dan Charrois
I just thought of one other bit of info that may be relevant to the auto-rebooting problem I've experienced with our PowerEdge 2850. Since the problem may be related to memory allocation, I thought I should mention that we have more memory in that machine that is typical for some users. W

Re: FreeBSD unstable on Dell 1750 using SMP?

2005-11-24 Thread Dan Charrois
Hi Kris, Rutger, and others that have commented on this thread. I'm happy to hear that I'm not the only one experiencing problems like this. I posted a similar question a month or so ago about a PowerEdge 2850 using SMP (dual Xeons) and never received any responses that helped solve the pr

Re: Strange crashing/rebooting problem

2005-10-26 Thread Dan Charrois
On 10/25/05, Dan Charrois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone can shed some light on a strange crashing/rebooting problem I'm having. First, the specs: Hardware: Dell PowerEdge 2850 rack mounted server, Dual 3.4 Ghz Xeon, 5 Gb memory [snip] You didn

Strange crashing/rebooting problem

2005-10-25 Thread Dan Charrois
Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone can shed some light on a strange crashing/rebooting problem I'm having. First, the specs: Hardware: Dell PowerEdge 2850 rack mounted server, Dual 3.4 Ghz Xeon, 5 Gb memory Hard Drives: LSILogic PERC 4e/Di, configured as RAID 5, with 3 X 40 Gb disks OS: Fre