> Our Dell T610 is and has been working just fine for the last year and > a half, without a single network problem. Do you know if they're > using the same integrated part?
> --eric Hi, as I should have mentioned, integrated nics that cause issues are using Broadcom BCM5709 chipset and these connectivity issues have been quite widespread amongst linux people too, Redhat tries to fix this; http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-26837 but I believe it's messed up in firmware somehow, as in our tests show 4.6.8-series firmware seems to be more stable. And what comes to workarounds, disabling msi is bad if it creates latency for network/disk controllers and disabling c-states from Nehalem processors is just stupid (having no turbo, power saving etc). Definitely no go for storage imo. Yours Markus Kovero _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
