| From: | Alan Hodgson <ahodgson(at)simkin(dot)ca> |
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| To: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: hardware advice |
| Date: | 2012-09-27 21:17:57 |
| Message-ID: | 1893014.oecozLt0Ye@skynet.simkin.ca |
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On Thursday, September 27, 2012 03:04:51 PM David Boreham wrote:
> On 9/27/2012 2:55 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> > Whatever you do, go for the Intel ethernet adaptor option. We've had so
> > many>
> > >headaches with integrated broadcom NICs.:(
>
> Sound advice, but not a get out of jail card unfortunately : we had a
> horrible problem with the Intel e1000 driver in RHEL for several releases.
> Finally diagnosed it just as RH shipped a fixed driver.
Yeah I've been compiling a newer one on each kernel release for a couple of
years. But the hardware rocks.
The Supermicro boxes also mostly have Intel network onboard, so not a problem
there.
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