[Asterisk-Users] Info request from Sangoma users

[Matt Florell]

We use all Asus motherboards now, with single P4 processors(some with
512k, 1024k and 2048k L2 caches) We run most of them with HT on, no
issues there.

Also, if you are using the on-board RAID, it's not really a complete
LSILogic RAID, They(LSILogic) won't support it because Dell does
modifications to the hardware and firmware to "optimize" it's
performance. Many calls to Dell and LSILogic left me very frustrated
about this.

I now personally avoid Dell servers at almost all costs. (I've even
refused a free one offered to me) I've just had too many issues with
them in the past(and Compaq too). Now we build all of our servers
ourselves and can't be hapier about it. And with the money we save we
buy replacement parts to keep on hand and have a spare server ready to
replace any of our production servers at a moment's notice.

Good luck,

MATT---

On 12/13/05, Gavin Hamill <gdh at laterooms.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 14:32 +0100, Patrick wrote:
>
> > Been a while since I used Asterisk on a Dell box but I remember I had to
> > turn off HT. Have you tried that?
>
> For sure, I've tried HT on and off, with 2.4 and 2.6 kernels :)
>
> > or booting the kernel with "noht". On Dell boxes I have also seen some
> > funky "NMI received for unknown reason. Dazed and confused" messages
> > in /var/log/messages.
>
> Yes I had those with the Digium card (before I returned it,
> obviously :), although Digium support managed to solve those in the
> driver.
>
> > While you are at it reseat everything you can find :)
>
> Feel the build quality :))
>
> > As a test you can also disable the onboard nic and stick in a quality
> > nic on its own interrupt to see if that helps. And off course disable in
> > the BIOS everything that you do not use (serial/parallel/usb etc.).
>
> All very sage advice - I have another box to try it on yet before
> curling up in a corner and crying - I'll report back if I find anything
> spectacularly wrong :)
>
> Cheers,
> Gavin.
>
>
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