>> There are no firmware upgrades for the PERC 4/im like Steve
>> suggested. I thought SMP was stable on Linux but it appears
>> not from my perspective...
Generally SMP _is_ stable on Linux (I guess that would have to depend on
your definition of stable :) ).
We've been running Linux on multi-processor Dell servers (not blades
like you have, but still) for over 3 years with only minor issues such
as the well-known kernel VM things. We're currently running a 6600 with
HyperThreading turned on and Linux has run great:
11:42am up 13 days, 3:08, 332 users, load average: 0.32, 0.62, 0.91
1115 processes: 1113 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU0 states: 2.0% user, 2.0% system, 0.0% nice, 95.0% idle
CPU1 states: 0.1% user, 1.0% system, 0.0% nice, 97.0% idle
CPU2 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% system, 0.0% nice, 100.0% idle
CPU3 states: 1.0% user, 0.1% system, 0.0% nice, 97.0% idle
CPU4 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% system, 0.0% nice, 100.0% idle
CPU5 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% system, 0.0% nice, 100.0% idle
CPU6 states: 1.0% user, 0.1% system, 0.0% nice, 97.0% idle
CPU7 states: 4.0% user, 18.0% system, 0.0% nice, 76.0% idle
Mem: 7745496K av, 7735244K used, 10252K free, 0K shrd, 50432K
buff
Swap: 2048248K av, 324052K used, 1724196K free 6395948K
cached
You say you have 10 blades - are all the blades experiencing the same
issue? If not then that would point to a hardware fault somewhere in
that one blade.
Good luck,
Andy.
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