Subject: Unexpected server crash

From: shd
Date: Fri Jul 7 22:21:16 2006

To: UADE-User-discussion
Problems were to be expected with a badly tested new server...

The server just died unexpectedly. The problem is unknown so far; it could be hw or sw. Earliest possible time to fix this is monday 2006-07-10, but it could possibly take lots of time (and money) to find and fix the problem. Each visit to the machine room costs me money so I'm unwilling to make many visits, which means I will possibly try to find and fix the problem at home and that will cause significant down time for UADE project services.

In the mean time, take care. On the good side, Kohina seems to be stable :)

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From: shd
Date: Sat Jul 8 12:02:14 2006

To: UADE-User-discussion
[quote:7bc67f5104="shd"]Problems were to be expected with a badly tested new server...

In the mean time, take care. On the good side, Kohina seems to be stable :)[/quote:7bc67f5104]

It wasn't a server crash :) The primary network interface died; the sky2 driver of linux 2.6.17.1 reported bad things:
[code:1:7bc67f5104]NETDEV WATCHDOG&#58; eth0&#58; transmit timed out
sky2 eth0&#58; tx timeout
sky2 eth0&#58; transmit ring 327 .. 286 report=330 done=330
sky2 status report lost?
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Well, fortunately there is another NIC in the machine so I'm using it now.

Lesson learned:  Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 19) works badly with Linux.

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From: amadeus
Date: Sat Jul 8 23:41:34 2006

To: UADE-User-discussion
[quote:89112f48dd="shd"]Lesson learned:  Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 19) works badly with Linux.[/quote:89112f48dd]
My experince is that the network card that is build into the nForce 430 chipset, is the fastest I have tried. Much faster than the 3Com and D-Link cards that I have.

And I am not even using the nVidia drivers =)