Jasjeet Sekhon jsekhon-at-fas.harvard.edu |suse-amd64| wrote:

Hi,

Does anyone know of OS stability issues related to vncserver for SLES 8? My opteron server has crashes a couple of times. Each time I was using vncserver and connecting with vncviewer (from RH 9 systems using tight compression). I'm trying to figure out if this is a hardware or software problem. The OS is up-to-date and the hardware is:

Polywell 2200A Dual Opteron ATX MB w/VGA,SATA,2LAN 2xAMD Opteron Processor Model 244 (64bit-1.8GHz) 8xDDR 333MHz 512M SDRAM PC2700 Memory ECC/Register 460W Power Supply for Dual CPU 2xWD 250GB Ultra-100 IDE 7200RPM 8MB HD 3Ware 7000-2 Port IDE RAID Controller

In any case, a service person will check out the machine in 24 hours....

I have the workstation version of this, yes from polywell, and a coworker of mine has a Model 246 single processor. There are reports that the AMD IDE interface is not ideal, and in particular IDE zip drives have proven to be a bit of a problem. I have SCSI disks otherwise. Also, I got mine early, so it needed a BIOS update. Check with Polywell, they should at least be able to tell you where to look. Once I got the BIOS update in place and all the SLES8 updates installed, it's been running heavy duty EDA processing quite reliably. I've also got *excellent* support from this suse-amd64 list. -- Steve Williams "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. steve at icarus.com But I have promises to keep, http://www.icarus.com and lines to code before I sleep, http://www.picturel.com And lines to code before I sleep."