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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:09:16 -0500
From:      "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
To:        "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@fer.hr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?
Message-ID:  <ef10de9a0703121409i6301d94bma61e02651544e4bf@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <et4b08$p7j$2@sea.gmane.org>
References:  <6faf55220703100845u62eab431y3a16ae0d8cb3bba7@mail.gmail.com> <55D533EB-26F9-40B7-838B-8BCB9D0A9463@tca-cable-connector.com> <20070310223906.E8914@chylonia.3miasto.net> <20070311194326.4da9e341@vixen42> <et4b08$p7j$2@sea.gmane.org>

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On 3/12/07, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> wrote:
> Vulpes Velox wrote:
>
> > That is only true if the process is giant locked. When look at dmesg,
> > look for things that say GIANT-LOCKED and those will be ones confined
> > to one processor.
>
> Which happens to include all SCSI devices I've encountered...
> sigh.
>
> And it's NOT rare to see giant locked processes on a heavily loaded web
> server.
>

No Giants Here:
arcmsr0: <Areca SATA Host Adapter RAID Controller (RAID6 capable)
> mem 0xc8400000-0xc8400fff,0xc8800000-0xc8bfffff irq 16 at device 14.0 on pci10
ARECA RAID ADAPTER0: Driver Version 1.20.00.13 2006-8-18
ARECA RAID ADAPTER0: FIRMWARE VERSION V1.41 2006-5-24

pass1 at arcmsr0 bus 0 target 16 lun 0
pass1: <Areca RAID controller R001> Fixed Processor SCSI-0 device
da0 at arcmsr0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <Areca ARC-1220-VOL#00 R001> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
da0: 166.666MB/s transfers (83.333MHz, offset 32, 16bit), Tagged
Queueing Enabled
da0: 1430511MB (2929687040 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 182364C)



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