Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (203 mails)

["Black, Alain" <ablack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

Brad Dameron wrote:
>Actually the 2881 has been know to have Ethernet issues. I have had to
>return a few because the ethernet would stop working after pushing a
few
>hundred MB over it. But they would work at first. The above message
>would indicate either a delay from spanning-tree turned on your switch,
>auto-detect on the port not working thus setting it to something like
>half-duplex and the BCM trying to communicate at full duplex, bad
>ethernet cable (Verify link lights are on), or bad ethernet. 
>
>Have you ran "ethtool eth0" to see if you have a link, etc? Can you get
>us that info? Also is it loading the BCM5700 driver or the TG3?
>
>Brad Dameron
>SeaTab Software
>www.seatab.com
>
>
>
>  

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