Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 13:39:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Gerald <gcoon@inch.com> To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: New Dell 2650 notes from the field? Message-ID: <20040526131846.T73581@kod.inch.com>
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CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz (2386.10-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf29 Stepping = 9 Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA, CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs I'm setting up FreeBSD on a few dual Xeon Dell 2650s to be deployed soon. I can make do with a single proc until FreeBSD has more mature SMP ability. I'm actually going to roll it out as a 4.8 box and upgrade to 4.9 in the future. (When something necessitates it.) I recently posted to -stable about a Compaq that had random lockups that had to be power cycled to unhang it. Disabling SMP finally resolved the problem, so I'm very leery of SMP in FreeBSD for the time being. The machine would run fine under no load and even make it 24-72 hours under heavy load before freezing. Does anyone have any pointers about FreeBSD + or - SMP on these Poweredge 2650's under a decent load? I saw one post where someone installed 5.1 on a 2650 (Stefan in 6/2003), but I don't know what kind of load he was putting on that machine or if it was a development box that could crash occasionally and not hurt anything. The one I'm deploying needs to be more stable than than a dev box. I would prefer not to drop a Linux distro in to our server mix just for what this customer wants this server for unless I have to. TIA, Gerald
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