From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 16 8:21:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f138.law6.hotmail.com [216.32.241.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01EBB37B401 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 08:21:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 08:21:15 -0700 Received: from 12.109.182.164 by lw6fd.law6.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 15:21:15 GMT X-Originating-IP: [12.109.182.164] From: "VR6 Power" To: paul@max.uk.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.4 Stable and SMP problems? Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 15:21:15 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Oct 2001 15:21:15.0885 (UTC) FILETIME=[329471D0:01C15656] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

Interested, I will keep you posted on my experiences with this machine. Thanks for your help Paul, have a good day!

 

-SteveC



 

>From: "Paul Lomax"
>To: "VR6 Power"
>CC:
>Subject: Re: 4.4 Stable and SMP problems?
>Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 16:00:42 +0100
>
> > Custom machines, Supermicro motherboard, dual PIII 1ghz..
> > I am getting the same identical errors as you.
> > How long have you been running 4.4 with smp enabled?
> > Any negative effects from this error? I've talked to a few others
> > who are running into this problem as well and they are in the dark as much
>as I am.
>
>We've been running for a couple of months now - on 4.3-RELEASE at the moment
>due to getting ports opened on firewalls being likened to getting blood out
>of a stone..
>
>I havent noticed any performance issues really - top shows all 4 CPUs being
>used okay.
>
>We have however experienced random freezes - the box returns pings but no
>services (ssh/http/etc) connect but dont respond.
>
>I dont think its related to the CPU issue however, i'm putting it down to a
>problem (software or hardware, not sure yet) with the SCSI or RAID cards.
>(HP NetRaid 3i raid, Symbios SCSI). I've turned up logging levels to see if
>I can catch anything. Course, if the disks are just stopping then it wont
>be able to log...
>
>Paul
>

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