There is no doubt that a lot of people have stable FreeBSD systems on Dell hardware. The strange thing is though that there are also a lot of people having problems with 1750's and 1850's (and therefore 2850's as well, as they have an identical board).
We have installed about 4 1750's and 8 1850/2850's in the last year and _all_ except 1 of them have the "automatic reboot" feature (using 4_10, 4_11, 5_3 and 5_4). We've had 1 lockup on the 1750 but have been unable to trace that to a cause, might be unrelated. Strangely, the 1750 that does ok is the one with the highest load (pushing several Mbits and an average load >2) and running 5.3-RC3. Any clues? (Best tip so far: disable USB that causes an IRQ conflict). Regards Rutger Bevaart Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 10:16:02 -0500 From: Vivek Khera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: FreeBSD unstable on Dell 1750 using SMP? To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On Nov 20, 2005, at 1:24 PM, Rutger Bevaart wrote: > Both experience the "auto reboot" feature. The mbufs on the 2850 > look like a counter (signed/unsigned) bug, maybe even just in the > printing. Other than that I'm having a hard time interpreting these > results. FreeBSD 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x have been stable for me on all Dell hardware. 4.x (currently 4.11) has been running on 1550's, 1650's, 2650 and 1750's for > 3 years 5.4 on 2450 for ~6 months 6.0 on 1750, 1850, and 2650 since 6.0-RC2, currently running 6.0-REL. Never a flake-out not due to a hardware failure, and that only on two of the 1550s over 4 years' time. I did have the 5.4 box running 5.4- REL-p7 lockup once, but was unable to determine the cause. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
