[geeks] bah.

[Phil Stracchino]

Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Actually, my "most probable cause" theory about the stability issues is
>> that the 3Ware board is shaky.
> 
> That's what I would suspect, too.
> 
>> In the meantime, once I can get the BIOS flashed to v1.08 I'll be trying
>> the FreeBSD route again and see if it'll boot amd64 then.
> 
> I hope it works out.  Despite 3ware's support team, the hardware is
> decent (and you already have it).

Of course, if it *is* that the card's gone bad, I'm SOL until I can pick
up a replacement or a pair of 8-port LSIs.


> [...] the things that make ZFS panic are unrelated and largely controllable.
> ZFS panics are almost always due to running out of non-pageable physical
> memory, which you can corral by limiting the amount of memory ZFS can
> gobble up.

The machine has 4GB of RAM, and can hold up to 16GB (DDR333), so I'd
hope that wouldn't be too terrible an issue.



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