[Asterisk-Users] DELL PowerEdge 2850 and TE4110P and TE110P

[Remco Barende]

Thanks.  One of the replies was that the TE110P does have some issues with 
certain motherboards.  If I remember well the problem you are having can 
only be solved by power cycling the complete system.

But I can very well imagine that inserting 2 Digium cards into the 2850 
will lead to problems. The 2850 has three PCI slots, the first is sharing 
it's interrupt with the Perc RAID controller, the other 2 slots each share 
their interrupt with an onboard NIC.

In your case you will never be able to give each card their own interrupt, 
you would need another PCI slot.

Right now zttest is showing me pretty consistent results. The result is 
always exactly 99.987793% nothing more and in about 1 of 35 probes I get a 
100% score.

Because 99.987793% is still regarded as the minimum acceptable I might 
leave things as they are. Or maybe (because the cost is limited) I may 
start looking for a 2 port, gbit ethernet card and disable the onboard 
nic's in the 2850 to make sure the digium card has it's own irq.  When I 
have time I will try disabling the onboard nic's first to see if that 
actually improves the scores, the last time I was messing with the 2850 I 
think I didn't see any improvement but then again I can't remember exactly 
anymore what I have / haven't tried.

Good luck, hope they will find the problem soon!

Cheers! Remco

On Fri, 26 May 2006, Mario Montiel wrote:

> I have many problems with this server and two cards TE4110P, because after
> several minutes
> one of two cards stays out without sending anyone alarm and then offer a NMI
> alarm i suppose
> that it is to cause the sharing IRQ, it´s a ticket for a DIGIUM
>
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> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com]En nombre de stoffell
> Enviado el: Sábado, 20 de Mayo de 2006 07:29 a.m.
> Para: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Asunto: Re: [Asterisk-Users] DELL PowerEdge 2850 and TE4110P and TE110P
>
>
> On 5/18/06, Remco Barende <asterisk at barendse.to> wrote:
>> Also the 2850 is *always* sharing IRQ's on every PCI slot, you need to buy
>> a dual port ethernet adapter which will use only one irq to free up an IRQ
>> on another slot. This just totally sucks and irq sharing in a box with
>> only 3 pci slots is totally unnecessary
>
> Because we only needed 1 NIC, we disabled the 2nd onboard NIC. That
> made 1 pci slot free of IRQ sharing, making the system stable and
> performing very well.
>
> cheers
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