[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash

[Reginald Beardsley]

As far as I'm concerned, problems like this are a bottomless abyss.  Which is why I'm still putting up w/ my OI box hanging.  It's annoying, but not critical.  It's also why critical stuff still runs on Solaris 10.

Intermittent failures are the worst time sink there is. There is no assurance that devoting all your time to the problem will fix it even at very high skill levels w/ a full complement of the very best tools.

If you're getting crash dumps there is hope of finding the cause, so that's a big improvement.

Good luck,
Reg

BTW Back in the 80's there was a VAX operator in Texas who went out to his truck, got a .357 and shot the computer.  His employer was not happy.  But I can certainly understand how the operator felt.

--- On Thu, 1/17/13, David Scharbach <david.scharbach at mac.com> wrote:

> From: David Scharbach <david.scharbach at mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash
> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
> Date: Thursday, January 17, 2013, 8:27 PM
> 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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