RE: [suse-amd64] Tyan S2881 network problem
It sounds like your options are to replace the mother boards (more than likely cost prohibitive to say the least) or to get PCI cards for your network needs. -Alain. -----Original Message----- From: Joe Georger [mailto:jgeorger@ll.mit.edu] Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 12:44 PM To: Black, Alain Cc: Brad Dameron; suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Tyan S2881 network problem Our files are typically 2 GB each. I think Tyan is using the non-C variant on their newer, PCI-E/nforce Pro boards. In googling I have seen a post of two of people saying the BCM5704C dies under anything more than a moderate load. Joe Black, Alain wrote:
Joe,
What do you consider large files?
I've got a 2 servers with MSI mother boards with the BCM5704 (don't know what the C difference is) chip and we nfs/sftp/rcp multi gig files. Nothing larger than 12 GB at this point though. We are quite pleased with their performance.
This is both under SLES8SP3 and SLES9.
-Alain
-----Original Message----- From: Joe Georger [mailto:jgeorger@ll.mit.edu] Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 12:17 PM To: Brad Dameron Cc: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Tyan S2881 network problem
We've got 7 of these units. On one the ethernet is dead. Some of them have qlogic cards and are serving 2-3 3TB raids. When we try to move copy large files over nfs or rcp, the machines like to lock up. We have gone from Suse 9.1 Pro to 9.2 Pro to SLES9 and nothing is staying up.
Is the BCM5704C really that bad? I can't blame the OS because I just can't believe SLES9 would lock up like that.
Joe
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