DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4
David Barnett
davidb at santacruz.k12.ca.us
Thu Jun 2 22:51:00 GMT 2005
Removing the DRAC cards let me log in. Now I can deal with the
usb interrupt stuff.
db
Danny Cooper wrote:
>I have disabled usb via rc.conf
>
>usbd_enable="NO"
>
>But in the new custom kernel I have commented out all of the usb devices and
>firewire.
>
>However the machine managed to stay up for 22 hours without any problems.
>
>But I decided to put it underload, through multiple make de/install's of
>mysql, apache, php, net-snmp to get the load of the machine high but after 1
>hour of load, the machine crashed once again.
>
>Now I have formatted one of the 2850's and put FreeBSD 5.4R (amd64)
>
>I still have disabled usb and nonessential parts of the kernel and placed
>the machine under heavy load, so far so good.
>
>DC
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of David Barnett
>Sent: 02 June 2005 17:52
>To: Gary Schrock
>Cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4
>
>Gary,
>
>I'm fighting the same battle on two new 2850's and two 1850's; "Interrupt
>storm detected on "irq18:uhci2"; throttling interrupt source".
>
>These machines have 2GB of ram and I using the i386 5.4Rel. version.
>This happens
>right after the reboot at the end of an install from CD. I've chosen to
>install "all",
>and bring up the ethernet interface. When I get the message, the
>machine is unresponsive
>to keyboard input or pings; basically frozen. I also tried 5.3 Rel.
>with the same results.
>
> From searching the lists I concluded disabling USB might be worth
>trying, so I did that
>in the BIOS. I'm still getting the same message and freeze.
>
>How are you disabling USB? It seems that has worked for you.
>
>One tidbit, they have the DRAC 4/I remote access controller cards in
>them, but I have no
>reason to believe they're involved at this point. Oh, and firmware is
>current throughout.
>
>Thanks for any hints.
>
>Dave Barnett
>
>
>Gary Schrock wrote:
>
>
>
>>At 05:05 AM 6/1/2005, you wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>I have checked on the DELL site for any updates to the BIOS/Firmware
>>>and the
>>>2 PE2850's are running the latest versions.
>>>
>>>BIOS A02
>>>Dell Backplane Firmware, v.1.00, A00
>>>Dell BMC Firmware, v.1.23, A03
>>>LSI Logic Perc 4e/Di, v.516A, A01
>>>
>>>Both machines have the same symptoms or the reboots at random times.
>>>
>>>I have now disabled the USB via rc.conf to see if the reboots still
>>>occur.
>>>On one machine I shall drop the PAE kernel and see if that increases the
>>>stability
>>>
>>>
>>We've been running a 2850 with dual processors for a while now,
>>although we're only running 2G of ram. I'm also running the i386
>>verson of freebsd instead of amd64 (since I couldn't decide whether
>>I'd really gain anything by running that version, especially with my
>>low ram amount). We did initially have a problem with our add-on
>>perc4 controller, but that was obviously a problem with that
>>controller, but after that was resolved, the only issue I've had with
>>it is the usb interrupt storms. Since we don't use usb on that
>>system, I've just completely disabled it. After that, it's run
>>flawlessly for about 6 months now.
>>
>>
>>
>>>Regards
>>>
>>>Danny
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
>>>[mailto:owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Vinny Abello
>>>Sent: 01 June 2005 05:10
>>>To: Danny Cooper
>>>Cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
>>>Subject: RE: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4
>>>
>>>What BIOS revision are you running in your 2850? Make sure all your
>>>firmware is up to date. I had problems with an slightly older Dell
>>>2650 trying to install FreeBSD until I flashed the latest RAID
>>>controller firmware. If this doesn't help, try running some
>>>diagnostics on the hardware. Dell has some pretty extensive
>>>utilities. I think you can boot a Dell diagnostic CD you download
>>>from their web site. It's possible you have bad RAM.
>>>
>>>At 11:50 AM 5/31/2005, Danny Cooper wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>With the kernel I removed all non-required devices
>>>>
>>>>Firewire, usb all the NIC's except em and removed all RAID and SCSI
>>>>controllers to make sure nothing would interfere.
>>>>
>>>>I tried to boot with the AMD64 CD but with no success, the machine just
>>>>hangs when it tries to load the CD, still trying to work out a
>>>>
>>>>
>>>solution to
>>>
>>>
>>>>the problem, but it just seems these DELL 2850 machines are for
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Windows or
>>>
>>>
>>>>RedHat!!!
>>>>
>>>>DC
>>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
>>>>[mailto:owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Claus Guttesen
>>>>Sent: 31 May 2005 16:15
>>>>To: Danny Cooper
>>>>Cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
>>>>Subject: Re: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 RELEASE and upgraded to -STABLE on a
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>DELL
>>>
>>>
>>>>>PE2850.
>>>>>
>>>>>FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #1: Wed May 25 23:43:12 BST 2005
>>>>>CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz (3192.22-MHz 686-class CPU)
>>>>>real memory = 5100273664 (4864 MB)
>>>>>avail memory = 4189892608 (3995 MB)
>>>>>MPTable: <DELL PE 016D >
>>>>>FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
>>>>> cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0
>>>>> cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 6
>>>>>amr0: <LSILogic PERC 4e/Di> Firmware 516A, BIOS H418, 256MB RAM
>>>>>
>>>>>I have disabled ACPI HTT and enabled PAE to make the whole system
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>memory
>>>
>>>
>>>>>available.
>>>>>
>>>>>However the problem I have is the system can crash at any moment,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>and is
>>>
>>>
>>>>not
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>load related. As the crash info below is when the machine was in
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>an 100%
>>>
>>>
>>>>>idle state.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>I have the same hardware as well, running on the i386-port. I have
>>>>disabled usb with usbd_enable="NO" in /etc/rc.conf. I have no idea
>>>>whether this helps but havent't had an issue with the 2850. Except
>>>>with a qlogic-hba and the isp-driver (I suspect) *on* amd64, but *not*
>>>>on i386.
>>>>
>>>>Claus
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