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Re: [Xen-users] Nasty kernel panic

Thanks--but it should be noted that I saw the crash both in
the 2850, which has e1000 network, and the 2950, which has broadcom.
I'll look for the new driver.  Thanks

Steve


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Steven C. Timm, Ph.D  (630) 840-8525
timm@xxxxxxxx  http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/
Fermilab Computing Division, Scientific Computing Facilities,
Grid Facilities Department, FermiGrid Services Group, Assistant Group Leader.

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Tim Wickberg wrote:

Steven Timm wrote:
I'm in the process of changing all my servers from poweredge 2850
to 2950.  I've deployed 3 other 2950's of near-identical OS configuration
that hadn't crashed.  But in today's events, both the 2850 I rsync'ed off
of, and the 2950 I rsync'ed on to, crashed at one point or another.


One related issue with the Broadcomm network cards in the PowerEdges:

The bnx2 driver in the Xen 2.6.18 tree is out of date and kept crashing under heavy load. Installing the bnx2-1.7.1c driver seems to have cleared this up. (Don't forget to to update-initrd after installing it, or you'll reboot into the same crash-y driver.)

Xen bug report here: http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1294

- Tim

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Tim Wickberg
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Senior System Administrator
Office of Research - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


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