Monday, 10 September 2007
Sun X2100 and OpenBSD - remote console working
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I have a couple of Sun X2100 M2 running OpenBSD hosted at Armada Hosting, nice machines and nice hosting - great.
but not all is great when you work with computers :-)
My server called Pumba has given me some problems and the built-in management card has some problems too. Today I fixed some problems and thus I would like to share some happiness.
To summarize
These servers work great with Open More text
Posted by at CEST 12:09 10/09/2007 in OpenBSD
I don't think you should avoid them.
Earlier this year one of the servers was being bashed with about 4500 downloads of a popular ISO image in a few days, without problems. I am running a -current kernel and pushed the number of BPF buffer to 200 :-)
The locksup can be due to a lot of things, but most likely -current and starting a huge number of nmaps at the same time.
Also today I found out the switch is acting strange, I get some UDP packets for neighboring servers - might have some influence.
Thank you for posting these details. I was considering a Sun server for a project I have, specifically for the SP and console functionality, but was concerned it would work with OpenBSD. While that addresses my concern, you mentioned the machine occasionally locks up. Can you elaborate? Should I avoid these servers because of those lock ups?