Oh great pool of hardware and driver knowledge....

[lehi.gracia at amd.com]

I would try Dell drivers instead of the Intel drivers, I don't know if that is what you are using or not, but Dell does some driver development for their systems and might be different than the Intel ones.

Sorry can't help any more but there is not a lot of info on your system's configuration, although it might not make a lot of difference because I haven't touch a PE650 for a few months now.

Try different switch port, different switch, different network board, if you are trunking try without, try the latest DSA cd from Dell, it might have some new patches in it.

Lehi 

-----Original Message-----
From: Gerry Creager N5JXS [mailto:gerry.creager at tamu.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 9:58 PM
To: Beowulf
Subject: Oh great pool of hardware and driver knowledge....


OK, so this is off-topic again, but this group is likely the most 
knowledgable source of info likely to have a handle on something like this.

I've got a pair of servers directly off a router/switch.  There is one 
problemmatic server/port interface, as shown in the MRTG page at 
http://page4.tamu.edu/mrtg/atmres/165.91.1.44_40.html

If you notice, connectivity appears to drop every 30 min.  although 
subjectively it appears to happen more often (say, every 3 min or so...) 
for periods of 30-45 sec.

Hardware here is a Dell PwerEdge 650 with the onboard Intel Pro/E1000 
adapter and a 2nd Intel E1000 dual port copper adapter.

Software is RH9 with all current patches, Apache and the Minnesota 
Mapserver, plus PostGres/PostGIS running.

NFS services to the box die periodically and users are sayingthe web 
response stinks.

I've taken a couple of decent shots at the problem.  I'm hoping someone 
here might have a potential solution I can check out!

Thanks!
gerry
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