* Graham Worley (no-reply at opensolaris.org) wrote: > I've got an Intel S5000VSA motherboard with 6 SATA drives connected to > it. I've a curious problem whereby the network intermittently stops > responding. After some time it comes back to life. This seems worse > when workload is high, not just network workload but disk activity in > general. I did think this was only triggered by smb but having > disabled that and NFS I'm now clueless as it happens when you thrash > the disks. Interestingly the BMC traffic is also interrupted at the > same time, though I didn't think that depended on the host. Has anyone > any ideas what's going wrong?
When I've seen behaviour of this type in the past it was an interrupt issue. The network card was sharing an interrupt with something else in the system that was getting thrashed and thus caused the flakey network card to well, flake out. Might be something to look into. Cheers, -- Glenn
