Re: Dell-Oracle-Linux: Anyone else run this...because its not working for us!

Hmmm.... Seti_at_Home and a database import are probably *very* different workloads from the perspective of the PERC controller. The database load is going to be *very* I/O intensive (and would have a very good chance of tickling bugs in a device driver) whereas I would expect Seti_at_Home to be CPU-intensive, doing little if any I/O. (Unless SETI_at_Home was making your system page hard...) How much I/O do you figure Seti_at_Home was driving?

Were you experiencing "restarts", or "panics"? Most UNIXen can be configured to dump an image of the kernel at the time of a panic and preserve it after a restart. I *presume* Linux has the same ability, although like other UNIXen, it may not be default behaviour. In any event, if you *can* capture a kernel dump, it *could* go a long way to diagnosing and fixing the problem. Providing you can find somebody who *wants* to, that is. :-(

Oh well, thanks for the report...

Janine Sisk wrote:

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> In our case the system was spontaneously restarting, while under
> moderately heavy load like running Seti_at_Home or loading a multi-GB
> Oracle export. As far as I can recall it never restarted while just
> sitting there idle.
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