From: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>
To: Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
Cc: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: steve.poe@gmail.com
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Which processor runs better for Postgresql?
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:52:06 -0500
Message-ID: <1150314726.26538.17.camel@state.g2switchworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E7F85A1B5FF8D44C8A1AF6885BC9A0E401388954@ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk>
References: <E7F85A1B5FF8D44C8A1AF6885BC9A0E401388954@ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk>
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 13:43, Dave Page wrote:
>
>
> Just thought I'd point you to Dell's forums.
>
> http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board?board.id=pes_linux&page=1
>
> wherein you'll find plenty of folks who have problems with
> freezing RAID
> controllers with 28xx and 18xx machines.
>
>
> <shrug>Never had any such problems in the dozen or so machines we run
> (about a 50-50 split of Linux to Windows).
>
> Regards, Dave
>
Yeah, We've got a mix of 2650 and 2850s, and our 2850s have been rock
solid stable, unlike the 2650s. I was actually kinda surprised to see
how many people have problems with the 2850s.
Apparently, the 2850 mobos have a built in RAID that's pretty stable
(it's got a PERC number I can't remembeR), but ordering them with an add
on Perc RAID controller appears to make them somewhat unstable as well.
On recommendation I've seen repeatedly is to use the --noapic option at
boot time.
Just FYI
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