Problems with 2.6.11-rc4, Opteron server and MPTBase : Round 2

2005-02-22 Thread Weathers, Norman R.
OK, some more information concerning the previous problems with 2.6.11-rc4. Ok, 2.6.11-rc3 does the exact same thing as 2.6.11-rc4 does, which is crashes whenever you try and boot up our Opteron based server which has an LSI MPT Fusion based SCSI card as the primary card. Now comes the weird part

RE: Problems with 2.6.11-rc4, Opteron server and MPTBase

2005-02-22 Thread Weathers, Norman R.
-Original Post Weathers, Norman R. wrote: >To all whom it may concern: > > >I am having trouble with several of the 2.6 kernels. The last one is >the one that is perhaps most annoying. > >I have a dual Opteron based NFS serve

Problems with 2.6.11-rc4, Opteron server and MPTBase

2005-02-22 Thread Weathers, Norman R.
To all whom it may concern: I am having trouble with several of the 2.6 kernels. The last one is the one that is perhaps most annoying. I have a dual Opteron based NFS server that keeps crashing when I try to boot up with 2.6.11-rc4. The node is trying to boot from an mptbase device, and it i

RE: 2.6.10: kswapd spins like crazy

2005-02-04 Thread Weathers, Norman R.
We have had a similar problem with all kernels since 2.6.8.1. It has gotten so bad that we had to drop back to 2.6.7 with some extra patches to get our systems working. Our situation is a little bit different. We are using smp Opteron boxes as NFS servers. Under almost any load at all, kswapd