From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 4 19:41:45 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA17533 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 19:41:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nhj.nlc.net.au (nhj.nlc.net.au [203.24.133.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA17511 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 19:41:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john.saunders@nlc.net.au) Received: (qmail 20635 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Feb 1999 14:41:35 +1100 Date: 5 Feb 1999 14:41:35 +1100 Message-ID: <19990205034135.20622.qmail@nhj.nlc.net.au> From: "John Saunders" To: pgervais Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP support X-Newsgroups: nlc.lists.freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990203152545.031bf1a0@glen-net.ca> User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980818 ("Laura") (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.37 (i686)) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In nlc.lists.freebsd-questions you wrote: > Seen in FAQ that Smp support was stable since 3.0. Yep. > Have critical project soon. First crack with FreeBSD. > Need to have a recommendation from knowledgeble users as to which > motherboard works best with FreeBSD which provides SMP support for > Pentium II chips at 450 Mhz? I'm looking for a rock solid > match between FreeBSD and motherboard. Did have SMP working a treat a couple of weeks ago. This is on an older Tyan Tomcat dual Pentium board. Then last week I updated my source and rebuilt the system. The new SMP kernel couldn't stay up longer than a couple of minutes. Then I built a non-SMP kernel and it's fine. If I absolutely needed SMP I would stick with 3.0-RELEASE as found on the CDROM (or a -SNAP made before the middle of January), or wait awhile until it's working again. Howeber it may be related to my hardware and it may be rock solid for you. I have Adaptec 27something PCI SCSI, IDE drives, NE2000 PCI network, 128MB RAM. Cheers. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ . | John Saunders - mailto:john@nlc.net.au (EMail) | ,--_|\ | - http://www.nlc.net.au/ (WWW) | / Oz \ | - 02-9489-4932 or 041-822-3814 (Phone) | \_,--\_/ | NHJ NORTHLINK COMMUNICATIONS - Supplying a professional, | v | and above all friendly, internet connection service. | +------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message