Re: [suse-oracle] Latest BNX2 driver crashes HP Proliant SLES-9 10g RACnodes

Hi Alexei,

It was originally delivered by a Proliant Support Pack, but the sysadmins have been manually reverting the bnx2 rpm in order to 1.6 have a stable production system.  It appears any 1.7 version of bnx2 crashes, including the latest 1.7.6b.

http://h50146.www5.hp.com/products/software/oe/linux/mainstream/bin/support/doc/general/mgmt/psp/v810/x86/x86_hppldu_v810.sles9.txt

If they drop the MTU of the RAC interconnects to 1500, the crashing goes away, along with the throughput.

Thanks,
-Michael



----- Original Message ----
From: Alexei_Roudnev <[email protected]>
To: Michael Taylor <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 8:54:12 PM
Subject: Re: [suse-oracle] Latest BNX2 driver crashes HP Proliant SLES-9 10g RACnodes

 
Is it system driver or additional 
driver?
 
(General rule - always use system drivers and don't 
try to install drivers from the vendors, except if these drivers bring important 
features).
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Michael  Taylor 
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 8:38  PM
Subject: [suse-oracle] Latest BNX2 driver  crashes HP Proliant SLES-9 10g RACnodes

Hi Suse-Oracle Gurus,

I have a situation with 10g RAC on SLES-9 on  HP Proliant 580 servers where sqlnet load balancing with jumbo frames works  fine until the latest bnx2 Broadcom drivers (1.7) are applied.    There are intermittent node crashes after load is generated on the RAC system  (11i E-Business Suite).  The crashes are 100% repeatable using hammerora  and a load balanced sqlnet entry.

HP is claiming the crashes are an  Oracle problem, but the crashes go away when the older bnx2-1.6 drivers are  reloaded.

Thanks in advance,
-Michael


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