RE: [rhn-users] Dell lock-up problem with Red Hat

[Todd Warner <taw redhat com>]

In the future, hit the main redhat list or your distro's list or the
current distro's list with this. Red Hat uses a bunch of 2650's so...
:)

Glad to know you are on the trail to fixing the problem.

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Ed Cooley wrote:

> I have gotten a few contacts already, which are much appreciated.
> 
> It seems there is a problem with the broadcom NIC card and the power save
> features in the 2xxx and 4xxx with a gigabit card.  I have not been able to
> test it yet, but you have to install a new nic driver, turn off power
> management in grub or lilo to correct the problem.  Supposedly DELL and
> RedHat have a new driver on their sites but they are not the same so I guess
> I will do some testing.
> 
> 
> Edward J Cooley - President
> Strategic Concepts, Inc.
> 479-271-7400 - Fax: 271-7401
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhn-users-admin redhat com [mailto:rhn-users-admin redhat com]On
> Behalf Of jmarkuna
> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 8:54 AM
> To: rhn-users redhat com
> Subject: RE: [rhn-users] Dell lock-up problem with Red Hat
> 
> HI
> 
>         I have seen the lock up on Dells running RH V7.1. I would watch the
> output of top and all of the memory was consumed. I upgraded the Kernel via
> up2date and the no more lock-ups.
> 
> Sincerely
> John Markunas
> System Administrator
> Williams College
> 413-597-3567(D)
> 413-822-2928(C)
> 413-597-4276(F)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhn-users-admin redhat com [mailto:rhn-users-admin redhat com] On
> Behalf Of Ed Cooley
> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 9:34 AM
> To: Red Hat Mailing List
> Cc: RHN User List
> Subject: [rhn-users] Dell lock-up problem with Red Hat
> 
> Sorry for the duplicate list posting but this might be turning into a big
> problem for us with 100 systems installed.
> 
> It seems a large number of the Dell servers we have recently put in server
> have a problem where they intermittently lock-up hard, no keyboard, no
> reboot, and require a power-down.  Sometimes they will run for a week or two
> but when they lock up, it is all over.   I installed a 2650 last night and
> it locked up within 45 minutes.
> 
> Dell seems to think it has something to do with the power save feature but
> can't come up with a way to turn it off.
> 
> Is anyone else having these kinds of difficulties with Dell or other
> servers?  In your experiences do the Dell servers have a higher occurrence
> of problems like this than IBM or HP servers running Linux?
> 
> We never had problems with Dell in the past and have had their machines run
> for over a year under heavy loads (some with almost 100 users on telnet)
> without even a reboot being required.  This seems to have just cropped up in
> the last 2 or 3 months with probably 50% of the new servers we have
> installed and most of them are 2650s.
> 
> Any comments would be appreciated.
> 
> Ed
> 
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