Re: Best-performing disk I/O options for a DBMS server on 7-STABLE

2008-05-07 Thread Andrew Snow
Karl Denninger wrote: I assume SCSI is the best path forward (either SA/SCSI or traditional) but have been out of the loop on the card(s) that work properly for a good long while. I've used several of the new 3ware SATA PCI-express cards: 2, 4 and 16 ports. They always work really well under F

Re: Best-performing disk I/O options for a DBMS server on 7-STABLE

2008-05-07 Thread Claus Guttesen
> What's the best option? > > Assume PCI/Express bus, having to buy a card AND disk(s) are fine. > > I assume SCSI is the best path forward (either SA/SCSI or traditional) but > have been out of the loop on the card(s) that work properly for a good long > while. > > What's my best option? I have a

Best-performing disk I/O options for a DBMS server on 7-STABLE

2008-05-07 Thread Karl Denninger
What's the best option? Assume PCI/Express bus, having to buy a card AND disk(s) are fine. I assume SCSI is the best path forward (either SA/SCSI or traditional) but have been out of the loop on the card(s) that work properly for a good long while. What's my best option? -- -- Karl Denninger (

Kernel panic - em0 culprit?

2008-05-07 Thread Yani Karydis
Hello, My server is experiencing occasional kernel panics when under moderate load. I'm attaching a crash dump and the dmesg output. I'm not sure how to read the kernel backtrace but it looks like the Intel NIC (em0) caused the problem. Occasionally, I used to get a "em0: watchdog timeout --

Re: mpd5.1 and HUAWEI 3g card (ubsa)

2008-05-07 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Stefan Lambrev wrote: client1: create bundle template B1 create link static L1 modem set modem device /dev/cuaU0 set modem speed 115200 set modem script DialPeer set modem idle-script AnswerCall set modem var $DialPrefix "DT" set modem var

Panics in kern_timeout.c (7-STABLE)

2008-05-07 Thread Ruben de Groot
Hi, I've experienced 2 panics in the last couple of days after upgrading to 7-stable sources of about 2 weeks ago: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 0; apic id = 00 fault virtual address = 0x9608 fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction point