[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash

[David Scharbach]

lol, you make it seem so easy :)

I just disabled the on board NIC.  We will see.  Next I will try the storage controller.  Then a hammer.

Cheers,

On 2013-01-16, at 9:01 AM, "Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)" <openindiana at nedharvey.com> wrote:

>> From: David Scharbach [mailto:david.scharbach at mac.com]
>> 
>> I have an OI installation that seems to crash about every 20 days.  Locks up
>> completely and needs a hard reset.  Not very much fun.
> 
> Whenever I've seen this type of behavior before, it was hardware/driver related, but we never were able to narrow it down to *which* piece of hardware or driver, by any method other than blindly swapping out hardware.
> 
> I'm not talking, necessarily, about failing hardware.  Just some sort of incompatibility bug.  On one system, we greatly reduced the incidence of crashes by disabling the on-board broadcom NIC, and buying the intel server PCIE NIC instead.
> 
> Likely candidates are the storage controller, and network adapter.  And everything else in the system.
> 
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