On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 22:25 +0100, Sam Eaton wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 09:03:50AM +0200, Olivier Mueller wrote: > Yes, probably the easiest way was to mount a drive over NFS and then > work it hard - something like bonnie++ did the trick nicely, but any > high load would do it, like building a lot of ports over NFS.
ok, interesting. I just tested some things this afternoon, and copying 50GB of data over the network (rsync-over-ssh) worked fine: nothing special in the dmesg, beside the expected: pid 1511 (rsync), uid 1001 inumber 424511 on /home: filesystem full > > this sounds interesting... do you still have your kernel configuration > > file somewhere? maybe it's just a small configuration issue on my > > side... > > I was using a completely stock SMP kernel config. ah, then you should try the patched if_bce.c sent by Paul Saab a few weeks ago (19Jul2006): http://yogurt.org/FreeBSD/if_bce.c This solved all my networking issues... > > > Neither could we, we gave up and bought something else. > > > > Unfortunately that is not a solution for us, the box is already here. > > For me the "worst case" scenario would be to go back and use linux... > > We're sending the box back to Dell :) We didn't want to go back to > Linux either. Fortunately the other boxes are HP DL380 G5, which seem to work fine with freebsd (until now :-)). regards, Olivier _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
