Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (203 mails)

[Joe Georger <jgeorger@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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@xxxxxxxxxx] 
>Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 12:17 PM
>To: Brad Dameron
>Cc: suse-amd64@xxxxxxxx
>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
>
>