Rolf Sommerhalder wrote:
The latest snapshot (13. Sept). of amd64 bsd.mp with ACPI enabled runs
stable on two X4100 M2 which are identically configured (single SAS
disk only, no RAID-1 yet, with current BIOS/SP/SAS Firmware from Sun).
Be caution and with reserved! Not stable if you do not add as well the
patch sent to tech two days ago too. It will crash without it just
trying to compile a simple kernel is you use bsd.mp as the running
kernel. It will not is you use the bsd kernel however. So, be caution
here on this statement. It is not there yet.
As Daniel already observed with a snapshot that is two days older,
booting is much faster than with previous shapshots, no long dalys
around IPMI startup.
It's stable yes/no, as long as you work on it locally anyway. If you try
to push and pull heavy traffic on that box, it will crash big time right
away and reboot! No exception there yet what so ever, again with the
bsd.mp and at time with the bsd one. If you do not do heavy traffic,
then it runs, but with a box like that, you want heavy traffic, that's
what I got it for anyway. 4 of them and I still can't use them yet,
unless I run the i386 instead of the MAD64 kernel and that I disable
ACPI in bios and that I load the latest BIOS in that box too.
So, it's much better then the release version obviously that is simply
not usable on that box anyway as a AMD64 bsd.mp kernel and almost not
usable on the amd64 kernel. I can't speak of other box running that
kernel however. But the release version is not usable as is and
shouldn't be loaded on production servers for sure with ACPI enable or
you will cry!
Keeping an eye on stability over the next few days while putting this
firewall cluster into pre-production (it runs pf, pfsync, a bunch of
VLANs with CARP on almost every VLAN, named, sendmail, OpenVPN, Squid,
and some other application-level gateway/proxies).
Next wekk, I also intend to insert a second SAS disk and add RAID-1.
If you want to use that box, by all mean please do yourself a favor and
DO NOT run the AMD64 kernel on it, any flavor and make sure you DISABLE
the ACPI in BIOS, or you will loose sleep I tell you.
Be warn.
Best,
Daniel
PS: Again, I can't speak knowingly for other platform, but on X4100 of
Sun, don;'t do it. I was going to test it on HP and IBM if I can get
some time to do so, but I need to move what is running on it in
production first before I can test it, witch is not that easy to do at
this time as I am rolling out about 80 servers at the moment.
