On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 12:15 CEST, Sebastian Benoit <benoit-li...@fb12.de> wrote: > Henning Brauer(lists-open...@bsws.de) on 2012.04.17 11:52:49 +0200: > > > I thought about being able to power cycle the machine when it freezes > > > that hard, when it > > > may not drop into ddb. Otherwise yes, serial console would suffice, even > > > rebooting from > > > within ddb. I hope it may not happen at all, but who knows, hardware may > > > be faulty, and > > > weird things may happen ;) > > > > I use seperate power controllers. > > i use the ipmi to reboot/power-cycle and monitoring PSUs. The IPMI SOL > console on the supermicros has problems here with loosing/not displaying > characters when pasting larger chunks of text, so i still use the serial > console. > > > > > > I'd like to know if my assumption to the cards are right, and whether > > > > > this box would be able > > > > > to handle that kind of bandwidth the cards provide. It actually only > > > > > needs to handle about 3GB/s, > > > > > but don't want to start trunking GigaBit interfaces. Or if I'm wrong > > > > > with my assumptions, > > > > > if someone has good experience with other 10GbE adapters. > > > > it should, I think, but this is always a bit hard to predict. > > > Also here, thanks. I didn't expected to get around of a test, just wanted > > > to get a little bit > > > of confidence, I don't move into a totally wrong direction with my > > > assumptions. > > > > looks like you're right on track :) > > > > let us know how it goes. > > yes please. >
First some other questions also need to get resolved, before even ordering the HW. So an answer may take a month or two. But I'll keep reporting back on my TODO list. cheers, Sebastian
