Subject: Re: [vserver] transient network drops
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 16:19:19 +0200

On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 03:47:04PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 03:37:23PM +0200, Tom Laermans wrote:
> 
> > Ehm, if you have 2 onboard NICs it would be very odd manufacturing 
> > process if they didn't follow up.
> 
> Yes -- that machine has an nforce and a broadcom NIC (and even
> a third, a Tyan SMDC NIC which shares its physical interface).
> 
> The successor model, the X2100 M2 has four onboard NICs (five,
> with the SMDC) which are also numbered consecutively (...9A,...9B,
> ...98, ...99).
> 
> I happen to be testing the X2100 M2 with Debian AMD64 stable 
> (etch, currently), using 2.6.18-5-vserver-amd64, and stock
> util-vserver, which seems to be version 0.30.212 at the moment.

you might want to upgrade to a more recent version

> Anyone tested that model with 8 GByte physical memory? I only
> have access to 4 GByte at this time.

on x86_64 8GB should 'just' work better than 4GB,
no issues to expect there (except maybe for thermal
issues if the ram is clocked too high :)

best,
Herbert

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