supermicro woes

[Lanny Baron]

Hi, Had you bought an iNET Server from us you would not have had the 
problems you are speaking about. Sorry, I cannot duplicate those 
segfaults on our Servers.

With dual or quad CPU's I cannot get our iNET Servers to lockup or 
crash. Well ok, if I put in some bad memory it will.

You may want to check that SuperMicro Power Supply. It may be flakey.

In terms of FreeBSD, I can tell you that it is -not- an OS problem. It 
is entirely -hardware-.

Long after the price is forgotton, the sweet taste of quality remains.

Regards,
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Lanny Baron
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H. S. wrote:
> Speaking of supermicro, I have a dual xeon 2.8 server stopped right now,
> because it keeps segfaulting. I'm using FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE, but this has
> always happened since 5.2.1-RELEASE. This server is stopped for some 8
> months now..
> 
> It will run fine with one CPU (ie can buildworld for days); I've tested
> the 4GB RAM with various memory tester programs and it has always come up
> fine. When I add the 2nd processor, buildworld will start to randomly
> segfault, and the server will eventually lock up completely.
> 
> I've also tried single-proc but alternating between the two, to rule out a
> screwed up processor. Also tried resetting BIOS to defaults, and HTT is
> turned off.
> 
> Is this a problem with FreeBSD itself? Anyone has similar problems ?
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>Supermicro told me that they have stopped verifying their new boards
> 
> with FreeBSD because "most users have moved to Fedora Core or Mandrake",
> which I find somewhat hard to believe.
> 
>>If you buy their systems or boards, it would be a good idea to let them
> 
> know of the OS choice.
> 
>>Pete
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