RE: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan Motherboard (2)

2005-02-16 Thread Alan Jay
> -Original Message- > From: David O'Brien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 04:53:24PM -, Alan Jay wrote: > > I had major problems installing with more than 4Gb but once I moved to > stable > > we seemed to have a stable platform when doing basic stuff - we have tw

RE: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan Motherboard

2005-02-15 Thread Jon Dama
I concur that the situation got much better with 5.3-Stable. What I experienced afterward occurred only under load. -Jonathan On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Alan Jay wrote: > > -Original Message- > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 04:53:24PM -, Alan Jay wrote: > > > I had major problems installing w

RE: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan Motherboard

2005-02-15 Thread Alan Jay
> -Original Message- > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 04:53:24PM -, Alan Jay wrote: > > I had major problems installing with more than 4Gb but once I moved to > stable > > we seemed to have a stable platform when doing basic stuff - we have two > > databases (mySQL) one is reasonably heavily u

Re: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan Motherboard

2005-02-15 Thread David O'Brien
[ PLEASE don't top post - it losses context, and this is a Unix mailing list] On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 04:53:24PM -, Alan Jay wrote: > I had major problems installing with more than 4Gb but once I moved to stable > we seemed to have a stable platform when doing basic stuff - we have two > datab

RE: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan Motherboard

2005-02-15 Thread Alan Jay
> > The >4GB problems with 5.3-RELEASE are a well known problem and affect > for i386 and amd64. It's pretty much fixed in the 5.3-STABLE stream, > but there are a few edge cases that I still need to fix which prevent me > from feeling good about turning it into a 5.3-R errata fix. It'll > defin

Re: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan Motherboard

2005-02-15 Thread Scott Long
Alan Jay wrote: Thanks Jonathan for this, can I ask the unmentionalble (which Linux implementation did you pick?). I had major problems installing with more than 4Gb but once I moved to stable we seemed to have a stable platform when doing basic stuff - we have two databases (mySQL) one is reasonab

RE: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan Motherboard

2005-02-15 Thread Alan Jay
ble@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan > Motherboard > > We also have these boards, I've found them unusable under > FreeBSD/5.3-STABLE with 8GB of RAM--other qualities appear to work okay. > But I even

RE: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan Motherboard

2005-02-15 Thread Alan Jay
nday, February 14, 2005 6:16 PM > To: Alan Jay > Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan > Motherboard > > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Alan Jay wrote: > > > I have FreeBSD 5.3 STABLE onto our new twin operteron T

Re: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan Motherboard

2005-02-15 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 05:47:27PM -0800, Jonathan A. Dama wrote: > FreeBSD/amd64 is not in my opinion not actually a stable tier 1 quality > release under these configurations, too many problems remain--especially > in regards to ia32 emulation. It is not required for a Tier-1 platform to have 32

Re: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan Motherboard

2005-02-14 Thread Jonathan A. Dama
We also have these boards, I've found them unusable under FreeBSD/5.3-STABLE with 8GB of RAM--other qualities appear to work okay. But I even saw some infrequent problems with 6GB. FreeBSD/amd64 is not in my opinion not actually a stable tier 1 quality release under these configurations, too many

Re: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan Motherboard

2005-02-14 Thread Doug White
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Alan Jay wrote: > I have FreeBSD 5.3 STABLE onto our new twin operteron Tyan Thunder K8S Pro > S2882 with 8Gb of RAM and had a reasonably stable operation for a few days we > installed a couple of databases one worked fine but the other kept on causing > the server to crash.

Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan Motherboard

2005-02-14 Thread Alan Jay
Hi, I have FreeBSD 5.3 STABLE onto our new twin operteron Tyan Thunder K8S Pro S2882 with 8Gb of RAM and had a reasonably stable operation for a few days we installed a couple of databases one worked fine but the other kept on causing the server to crash. I have searched the archive and there