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Re: FW: [Xen-users] Problem with Dell Poweredge 1850

To: Barry Flanagan <barryf-lists@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: FW: [Xen-users] Problem with Dell Poweredge 1850
From: David H <davidh.davidh@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 10:52:39 -0700
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I am using a SuperMicro server with the same Intel E7520 "Lindenhurst"
chipset as the dell 1850.  It looks like the 1600SC has a ServerWorksR
GC-SL chipset.  Both have onboard intel NICs(82540/82544), they may
share other componets.

David

On 5/27/05, Barry Flanagan <barryf-lists@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> David H wrote:
> >>It would be particularly interesting to know what the unstable tree does
> >>on these systems, as the code is quite different.
> >
> >
> > I may not have been clear; I have been testing with "unstable".  If I
> > build unstable with the default configuration and boot dom0 with the
> > following grub entry I can make dom0 hang using a number of IO
> > intensive commands.  Tar, cp, mkfs, all can cause the problem and
> > using scp to copy a large file to another machine will hang the domain
> > in no time.  Xen still responds on the serial console.
> >
> > title Xen 2.0.6 / XenLinux 2.6.11
> >         root (hd0,0)
> >         kernel /xen.gz dom0_mem=131072 console=com1 watchdog com1=115200,8n1
> >         module /vmlinuz-2.6.11-xen0 root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 ro
> > console=tty0
> >         module /initrd-xen-2.0.img
> >
> > Add "nousb"
> > module /vmlinuz-2.6.11-xen0 root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 ro console=tty0 
> > nousb
> > and the problem goes away.
> >
> 
> This corresponds with my experience. I had the same type of problem and
> got around it by disabling all USB in the xen-0 kernel config. This was
> also on a dell box, but an SC1600 rather than an 1850.
> 
> --
> 
> -Barry Flanagan
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