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тАО10-06-2009 12:58 PM
тАО10-06-2009 12:58 PM
HP NC532i NICS
When I disable them the nonpaged pool returns to normal around 30MB
I have updated the drivers (v5.0.13.0), I have updated the firmware (v4.8.0), I have updated the NCU (v9.70.0.0), I have PSP 8.15A installed on server. The servers are clustered SQL2005 but are not in production so there are no connections being made to them. Please help shed some light on why these adapters consume so much non paged memory. I also have a BL685c server running 64bit 2003 Enterprise with the same adapter. It also shows considerable non paged pool usage by the adapters.
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тАО10-06-2009 05:41 PM
тАО10-06-2009 05:41 PM
Re: HP NC532i NICS
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тАО10-06-2009 11:49 PM
тАО10-06-2009 11:49 PM
Re: HP NC532i NICS
This i would think is normal as above writer is saying.
The same chip but mezzanine card has a note in the product bulletin.
"NOTE: The NC532m requires a minimum of 2 GB of server memory"
if i interpret this correctly that means that ~1gb for OS and ~1 gb for use of the nic. If this is not accurate, we can conclude that the nic needs alot of memory.
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тАО10-07-2009 08:15 AM
тАО10-07-2009 08:15 AM
Re: HP NC532i NICS
Some NICs might employ multiple rings - especially NICs which have "multi queue" support.
If there are ways to set the rx ring size, that might be a way to alter the quantity of memory consumed by the driver - at the risk of making the rx ring too small (remember, this is a 10 gigabit per second interface) and losing performance.
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тАО10-07-2009 05:18 PM
тАО10-07-2009 05:18 PM
Re: HP NC532i NICS
So if these adapters require a lot of non paged memory specifically because they are 10GB then the issue now becomes the limitation of windows 2003 32 bit non paged memory at 256MB. These servers are not even in production yet and running idle the adapters are using 180MB. We have one other server with these adapters. It is 64bit and in production. The non paged memory peaks at 300MB (which is safe for 64bit and more) but for 32bit this will kill my servers and prevent things like TCP connections and system services that require non paged mem from working. Each of my servers has 24G of memory so there is no shortage of physical memory to the OS. Can you please elaborate on what is meant by RX queue and reconfiguring the size.
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тАО10-08-2009 07:43 AM
тАО10-08-2009 07:43 AM