[ofw] RE: Some good news and some not so good news....

[Tzachi Dar]

Applied on 1712,1713 to trunk and branch.

Thanks
Tzachi 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Smith, Stan [mailto:stan.smith at intel.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 3:15 AM
> To: Leonid Keller; Tzachi Dar
> Cc: ofw at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject: Some good news and some not so good news....
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The Good news...
> The HPC head-node slow down appears to be gone. I was able to 
> install OpenSM on the head-node, install 15 nodes and proceed 
> into MPI testing without problems.
> 
> The only possible problem I saw was during remote installs 
> from the head-node via clusrun, at times a cmd window 
> character echoing would stop for 3-7 characters, echo back 
> 'some' of the characters and continue; all this on a 
> hardwired keyboard & display?
> The running task manager showed CPU utilization spikes 
> consistent with dropping characters.
> Additionally, the mouse cursor would freeze during the CPU 
> utilization spikes.
> 
> I have not seen either of these problems after the remote 
> node installs completed successfully.  Not sure what to make 
> of the spikes?
> 
> The not so good news....
> 
> svn.1711 WOF2-0\trunk\hw\mlx4 mlx4_hca.sys fails to load on 
> Svr 2008, mlx4_bus.sys loads OK.
>  'devman update mlx4_hca.inf MLX4\CONNECTX_HCA' returns error(2)?
> This command invocation worked fine in RC1..RC4?
> 
> Does the addition of WPP support and turning on 
> ENABLE_TRACING in the mlx4 drivers require additional files 
> to be installed with mlx4 ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Stan.
>