On 03/25/2017 02:35 PM, Sarah Newman wrote: > On 03/16/2017 04:22 PM, Kevin Stange wrote: > >>> I still can't rest assured the NIC issue is fixed, but no 4.4 or 4.9 >>> server has yet had a NIC issue, with some being up almost a full month. >>> It looks promising! (I'm knocking on all the wood everywhere, though.) >> >> I'm ready to call this conclusive. The problems I was having across the >> board seemed to be caused by something seriously broken in 3.18. Most >> of my servers are now on 4.9.13 or newer and everything has been working >> very well. >> >> I'm not going to post any further updates unless something breaks. >> Thanks to everyone that provided tips and suggestions along the way. >> > > Do you mind sharing what hardware have you been running the 4.9 kernel on other than "Supermicro X9DRT, Dual Xeon E5-2650, 2x I350, 2x 82571EB" and > "Supermicro X9DRD-iF/LF, Dual Xeon E5-2630, 2x I350, 2x 82575EB" if any? Are you using any SATA/SAS controllers? We have no expansion cards installed except for the dual-port gigabit NICs. We're using the onboard SATA controller for only the local Dom0 OS, and iSCSI and NFS for managing storage for VMs and images. -- Kevin Stange Chief Technology Officer Steadfast | Managed Infrastructure, Datacenter and Cloud Services 800 S Wells, Suite 190 | Chicago, IL 60607 312.602.2689 X203 | Fax: 312.602.2688 kevin at steadfast.net | www.steadfast.net