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Date:      Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:38:19 -0000
From:      "Andrew Tulloch" <andrewt@slipstreaminteractive.com>
To:        "'Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)'" <john.cagle@hp.com>, <freebsd-smp@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Compaq/HP DL380G3 SMP and FreeBSD-STABLE
Message-ID:  <002001c2ee2d$91b54430$0100a8c0@Elrond>
In-Reply-To: <C50AB9511EE59B49B2A503CB7AE1ABD10440E44C@cceexc19.americas.cpqcorp.net>

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John,
I've been digging further round the mailing lists and CVS logs of files
mentioned, Peter's commit to mpapic.c seems to say it'll partially work, =
but
using John Baldwin's Hyperthreading patches will make it work properly? =
I
believe these have been commited to -STABLE in the run up to 4.8-RELEASE
anyhow. Now I'm assuming that means having options HTT in the kernel =
config
as well, which I currently don't have. I'm not sure what effect either =
way
hyperthreading will have on a high read query, small content database on
MySQL, which is what these machines will do, but I'd rather enable
hypthreading than have one cpu if that's the solution.

Thanks,
Andrew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cagle, John (ISS-Houston) [mailto:john.cagle@hp.com]=20
> Sent: 19 March 2003 15:10
> To: Andrew Tulloch; freebsd-smp@freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: Compaq/HP DL380G3 SMP and FreeBSD-STABLE
>=20
>=20
> Andrew,
>=20
> I have one of these running -stable without any problems.  My=20
> setup is a bit different: I don't have 2GB of RAM and I'm=20
> only using the internal storage (ie. I don't have a Smart=20
> Array 5302-128 board).  I originally installed from a 4.7 CD=20
> and have cvsup'd to -stable.
>=20
> Do you have the BIOS set to Hyperthreading Enabled?  Can you=20
> send me the output of 'mptable -verbose' and 'pciconf -lv'? =20
> Also, what is the date of your BIOS?
>=20
> Thanks,
> John
> --------------------------------
> John Cagle     john.cagle@hp.com
> Principal Member Technical Staff
>    Industry Standard Servers
>     Hewlett-Packard Company
>=20
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew Tulloch [mailto:andrewt@slipstreaminteractive.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 8:26 AM
> > To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org
> > Subject: Compaq/HP DL380G3 SMP and FreeBSD-STABLE
> >=20
> >=20
> > I've got a new compaq DL380G3 with dual 2.8Ghz xeons and 2GB
> > of ram installed from a FreeBSD 4.8-RC1 cd and cvsup'd and=20
> > make world to -stable, which all worked fine. However as soon=20
> > as I SMP support to the kernel and reboot the machine dies.=20
> > It boots and starts services, but after a short time of doing=20
> > anything it dies, I tried doing a make buildkernel and it=20
> > lasted about a minute before it couldn't seem to access the=20
> > disk, eventually the machine seems to lock altogether. The=20
> > disk in question is a RAID5 array of 3x36.4GB SCSI disks=20
> > connected to a 5302-128 board.
> >=20
> > I've searched and found only one reference to FreeBSD and SMP
> > on these machines and it mentioned having the OS Selection in=20
> > the bios set to Linux, which I did have.
> >=20
> > The only kernel messages I've seen at the time were:
> >=20
> > Mar 17 14:25:53 gandalf /kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
> >=20
> > Which is the interface currently in use. It almost seems like
> > the machine is just losing interrupts.
> >=20
> > Everything seems to work fine with a UP kernel, completed
> > buildworlds without any issue.
> >=20
> > Has anyone got one of these and has it working?
> >=20
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Andrew
> >=20
> > Please CC me in any responses as I am currently not subscribed.
> >=20
> > Dmesgs attached.
> >=20
> > Andrew Tulloch
> > Systems Administrator
> > Slipstream Interactive Ltd
> > Email : andrewt@slipstreaminteractive.com http://www.itv-f1.com
> >=20
>=20


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