Kyle George wrote:
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Marco Peereboom wrote:
Ok got my x4100 out of storage. What was the mpi issue again that
someone was seeing?
Sorry for the broadcast but I couldn't find that email.
I think this is the thread you're looking for:
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119623820305056&w=2
That's the tread, but there is a lots of informations in there and lots
more tests done pass that and the first finding happen to not be write.
I can't isolate to the drive for sure and provide convincing data to
show it, however, it appear to be the case even if I can't pin point the
exact cause as the server will crash at will every time access to the
drive is done in heavy load. Simply, low load will not crash the server,
but heavy will "every single time", no exception there.
I try so many different thing, but couldn't find the exact cause of it.
I can reproduce it at will on 4 different identical servers, so, it's
not a defective hardware issue, as for that, it would need to be the
same problem on 4 servers and what the chance of that, unless it is a
manufacture issue, witch would have been put to light long ago obviously.
But to crash it, simply do:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/test bs=1m count=1000
and you are 100% sure to see the server crash in just a few seconds.
Best,
Daniel
