On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi there,
I have carried out extensive hardware tests and most of the hardware (including most of the memory, the cpu and main board) have already been replaced but this makes no difference to stability. I also believe this issue was already there when running 4-STABLE. I have tried out the new geom feature and gvinum but crashes where more frequent and panic dumps were specifically mentioning vinum, so I turned back to non-geom vinum (which also has a significantly higher performance).
I tried 5.3-STABLE with vinum and gvinum and had a number of crashes with a Supermicro P4DC6 dual 1.8GHZ Xeon/512MB, RAID 1 boot device using the Adaptec 2005S + onboard SCSI, Compaq OEM Adaptec 39160 (flashed to Adaptec v 2.57 BIOS), 8 Seagate 43GB drives in a RAID 5 array.
I dropped back to 4.11-STABLE, same hardware, no crashes. I had two processes copying 150GB from an NFS-mounted volume to the RAID 5 array for several days.
On the other hand I'm running 5.3-STABLE on a Toshiba 8100 notebook and dual PIII/Supermicro P6DGH which have been rock solid.
I personally would not use the 8139 Ethernet cards in a server (see "man rl" or read the code, the author of the driver obviously thinks the 8139 chipset is a horrible kludge. I personally use only Intel Pro100 and variants (the P4DC6 has one built in).
(I can't tell you if the problems I had were hardware (I did change memory at one point, but that didn't solve the problem), some configuration mistake I made, or bugs triggered by my hardware version (I do have HTT turned off).
Mike Squires
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