Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-14 Thread Oliver Fromme
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > If it's really only a web server, then you probably don't > > need the USB ports. In that case you should remove ohci > > and ehci from your kernel. The USB interrupt handler is > > quite heavy-weight, so it can have a noticeable impact if >

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 08:22:39PM +0100, Greg Byshenk wrote: > Don't you really need to have a monitor, as well? I _have_ worked > "blind" before, but I didn't enjoy it. I can imagine having a > keyboard with me when wandering around, but wouldn't normally have > a monitor. I had always though

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Clayton Milos
o sort something out. It's cheaper and faster. And besides that I have console access to the servers wherever I happen to be that and an internet connection. - Original Message - From: "Greg Byshenk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 9:22 P

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Greg Byshenk
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:19:45AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > I'll agree with this (re: webservers not needing USB), except in > regards to one item: keyboards. > > More and more x86 PCs these days are expecting keyboards to be > USB-based. Yes, PS/2 ports are still present on most (but no

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 05:33:24PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: >> If it's really only a web server, then you probably don't >> need the USB ports. In that case you should remove ohci >> and ehci from your kernel. The USB interrupt handler is >> quite heavy-weight, so it c

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 05:33:24PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > If it's really only a web server, then you probably don't > need the USB ports. In that case you should remove ohci > and ehci from your kernel. The USB interrupt handler is > quite heavy-weight, so it can have a noticeable impact i

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
Ivan Voras wrote: > - The less serious problem: It looks like a whole bunch of built-in > devices is routed to irq 29: bce, ciss, ohci and ehci. I notice last > three are giant locked, which doesn't look good, especially since this > should be a loaded web server. If it's really only a web ser

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Ivan Voras
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Pete French wrote: There's something unusual going on and I don't know what else to try. Finally, after fiddling with various options, I've sort-of got it to work by creating two slices (s1, s2), setting root partition on s1a and the rest (/usr, /var, etc.) on s2. Now, the "

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Pete French
> There's something unusual going on and I don't know what else to try. > Finally, after fiddling with various options, I've sort-of got it to > work by creating two slices (s1, s2), setting root partition on s1a and > the rest (/usr, /var, etc.) on s2. Now, the "F1 prompt" boot stage > behaves

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: - The showstopper: Sysinstall completes (though slowly), but on reboot the loader doesn't go further than the "F1 prompt" :( This is very curious, since when booting from install CD the loader shows it recognizes the CD drive and drives A: and C:, so BIOS seems to be ok. If I u