BCM5704C usually dies due to electrical issues (capacitance) rather than driver issues. Not such a popular IC as a result any longer. Seemed to be prevalent mainly when the CSA Gigabit bus was born and CSA Intel was quite expensive - Broadcom as a PCI bus device was more desirable, but at the same time quite problematic. -----Original Message----- From: Joe Georger [mailto:jgeorger@ll.mit.edu] Sent: 13 June 2005 21:44 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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