Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-14 Thread Oliver Fromme
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: If it's really only a web server, then you probably don't need the USB ports. In that case you should remove ohci and ehci from your kernel. The USB interrupt handler is quite heavy-weight, so it can have a noticeable impact if the

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: - The showstopper: Sysinstall completes (though slowly), but on reboot the loader doesn't go further than the F1 prompt :( This is very curious, since when booting from install CD the loader shows it recognizes the CD drive and drives A: and C:, so BIOS seems to be ok. If I

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Pete French
There's something unusual going on and I don't know what else to try. Finally, after fiddling with various options, I've sort-of got it to work by creating two slices (s1, s2), setting root partition on s1a and the rest (/usr, /var, etc.) on s2. Now, the F1 prompt boot stage behaves like

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Ivan Voras
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Pete French wrote: There's something unusual going on and I don't know what else to try. Finally, after fiddling with various options, I've sort-of got it to work by creating two slices (s1, s2), setting root partition on s1a and the rest (/usr, /var, etc.) on s2. Now, the

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
Ivan Voras wrote: - The less serious problem: It looks like a whole bunch of built-in devices is routed to irq 29: bce, ciss, ohci and ehci. I notice last three are giant locked, which doesn't look good, especially since this should be a loaded web server. If it's really only a web

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 05:33:24PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: If it's really only a web server, then you probably don't need the USB ports. In that case you should remove ohci and ehci from your kernel. The USB interrupt handler is quite heavy-weight, so it can have a noticeable impact if

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 05:33:24PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: If it's really only a web server, then you probably don't need the USB ports. In that case you should remove ohci and ehci from your kernel. The USB interrupt handler is quite heavy-weight, so it can have

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Greg Byshenk
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:19:45AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I'll agree with this (re: webservers not needing USB), except in regards to one item: keyboards. More and more x86 PCs these days are expecting keyboards to be USB-based. Yes, PS/2 ports are still present on most (but not

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Clayton Milos
and unusual problems with Proliant ML350 On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:19:45AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I'll agree with this (re: webservers not needing USB), except in regards to one item: keyboards. More and more x86 PCs these days are expecting keyboards to be USB-based. Yes, PS/2 ports

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 08:22:39PM +0100, Greg Byshenk wrote: Don't you really need to have a monitor, as well? I _have_ worked blind before, but I didn't enjoy it. I can imagine having a keyboard with me when wandering around, but wouldn't normally have a monitor. I had always thought

Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-10 Thread Ivan Voras
The machine in question has a 2-core Xeon, 2GB RAM and a new ciss-compatible controller, for which I appologise for not remembering the exact model but it's 200-something with three attached 7.2k RPM SATA drives (so it's probably SAS-compatible) in RAID5, and 128 MB cache with BBU. I'm trying to