> doing a project for a large client and I would like to know if anyone has > any issues running. > supermicro with SOC CPUS models
> SYS-5018A-FTN4 If you have any of these, replace them. They have known buggy CPUs and will randomly fail without warning. We replaced about a dozen of them after >50% failed within the first year of installation. Note this isn't an OpenBSD problem -- the 5018As are just bad hardware. (They also have APIC interrupt issues, most likely due to a buggy ACPI implementation.) We replaced all our SYS-5018A-FTN4s with SYS-5018D-FN8Ts. I can't speak to the other models you mentioned. As for network throughput, we did test a pair of 5018As with 10-gig NIC cards. They were able to sustain a bit over 750 MB/s throughput on ttcp tests, so this class of Supermicro will certainly shovel the packets across the network. I don't know how much of a hit you will take with IPsec, but we ran our TLS-terminating load balancers on the 5018As before replacing them, and they had no trouble keeping up with a saturated 1-gig NIC worth of TLS connections. The replacement 5018Ds just loaf along. [ All the above gear was/is running the at-the-time current 'release' version of OpenBSD. ] --lyndon
