[plug] re: server freezing

[Jon Miller]

Yes, I used this when I installed the software.  It does a check to see
if the firmware is up-to-date then it creates a file similar to
kickstart.  You use this file/disk to install Red Hat (in my case 8.0). 
I noticed that IBM has a updated drivers for the broadcom gigabit
ethernet card, so I'll apply that tomorrow to see if it helps.  

Jon
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 22:44, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:15:33PM +0800, Denis Brown wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Jon  Miller wrote:
> > > Just did a line-by-line look at dmesg and saw something that I find 
> > interesting, instead of stating it found 2 CPU processors it's actually
> > saying found 4 processors.  There are only 2 Xeon processors.
> 
> > Seriously, as Craig said, it would be unlikely to be hardware, but
> > I'd like to contribute one thing...  I have one of its smaller
> > brothers, an x205 and the interesting thing with this one is its
> > network card (chipset) which is by Broadcom.   Fine chipset but
> > has obviously suffered a painful birth process.   ...
> 
> One of my customers has been running a dual-Xeon x235 for a couple
> of weeks now... SuSE Linux 8.2 with kernel 2.4.20 (IIRC) using the
> 64GB memory model. They have 6GB installed. No problem of freezing;
> just an odd slowing of disk IO over a couple of days.
> 
> > Oh, the other thought on this class of IBM boxes is their use of a snazzy
> > system health check - SmartPath, LightPath or somesuch they call it.
> > Supposed to report problems courtesy of some LEDs internal to the box,
> > right down to fan failures, etc, etc.   Presume that's another "been
> > there, done that" exercise. :-(
> 
> IBM have a package called "Director" that may help... contains the
> "latest" drivers for Linux as well as access to on-board sensors. I
> haven't tried that because something similar comes bundled with
> SuSE.
> 
> IBM's Director is intended for Redhat... supplied free on request.
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Jon Miller <jlmiller at mmtnetworks.com.au>
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