Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 16:29:13 H.D. wrote: > On 18.09.2007 17:14, Mark Watts wrote: > > Ah yes, I'd forgotton about that post. > > > > I've removed the TOE hardware dongles with extreme prejudice, so we'll > > see what happens... > > I just debugged a new Intel box that failed with stalled IO every few > days (not even DRBD on it). After disabling IOAT it seem stable now .. > > .. before that I had a freezing SuperMicro box with some DMA performance > options turned on in the bios.. disabling it and it runs stable for half > a year now. > > I don't know what's up these days, every vendor comes up with its own > half tested technologies. I've never had so much problems with new > hardware than this year. > > Kinda reminds me of the days of early 3D-accelerator cards. But this is > server hardware, it MUST WORK. Agreed - I'm getting rather bored with fiddly new hardware not being stable, especially when all the server vendors are touting improved stability all the time... Mark. -- Mark Watts BSc RHCE MBCS Senior Systems Engineer QinetiQ Trusted Information Management Trusted Solutions and Services Group GPG Key: http://keyserver.veridis.com:11371/search?q=0x455420ED -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20070918/8568e32f/attachment.pgp>