Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:33:24 -0400 From: <thomas@chelseai.com> To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Looking for Dual Athlon MP FreeBSD Version recommendations Message-ID: <200304141433.AEX27389@ms4.verisignmail.com>
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This coming weekend I'm planning on building a dual Athlon MP 2000+ server with a Chaintech 7KDD AMD 762 Motherboard w/onboard IDE RAID. On my "current" box I've been running 4.X- Stable, but it's a single cpu machine. It's primary function will be an Apache web server. I'm very interested in running 5.0 so that I can take advantage of the SMP enhancements, but I'm also worried that it may not be very stable for my configuration. Assuming that those on this list have a lot more experience running FreeBSD with multiple CPUs, what are your recommendations? Specifically, should I stick with 4.X-Stable, or start using 5.0? Are there widespread problems with 5.0, or do I have a pretty good chance of having a stable system? It's not mission critical in the sense that I can't build it, then rebuild it if it turns out to not work out well, but that's obviously a lot of work and wasted time that could be avoided if I can get a warning that there is little chance 5.0 is stable enough to run on my configuration. Also, if you have a recommendation for one or the other, are there specific kernel/tuning parameters to make sure I include or to make sure I avoid like the plague? Thanks in advance for the benefit of your experience and advice, Thomas
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