From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 31 23: 6:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rfnj.org (rfnj.org [216.239.237.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6188E37B403 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 23:06:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from megalomaniac.biosys.net (megalomaniac.rfnj.org [216.239.237.200]) by rfnj.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CFE013ADD; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 02:06:15 +0000 (GMT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010901020122.00c2be38@rfnj.org> X-Sender: (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 02:06:12 -0400 To: Ted Sikora , From: Allen Landsidel Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors In-Reply-To: <3B8F79C0.D4781D1B@home.com> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010831044409.00c26c38@rfnj.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 07:49 8/31/2001 -0400, Ted Sikora wrote: >There's always going to be incompatabilities between boards what works >on one won't on another even with supposedly identical components. I use >nothing but AMD Slot-A/Socket-A/K6 with VIA and ALi chipsets on FreeBSD. >After disabling APM in the kernel when the microtime error first >appeared I have had zero problems. In fact I can't ever remember having >such stable machines like I enjoy now. I agree 100% my AMD based machines have been rock solid since day one. Unless something drastic happens soon, I'll never buy an Intel CPU again. My "newest" Intel CPU is a P-133 in an old laptop I have here. Aside from that, I have a P-120 desktop running as a secondary name server. All the rest of the boxes on my network are AMD. 2 K6-2's, 1 Slot-A athlon, and 5 Thunderbirds. Some (most) run FreeBSD, some run windows, but they're all free of hardware problems. All the AMD systems save one are VIA chipsets as well, and I haven't ever had any of the problems described here.. there may well be issues with APM, but I never use it, so I wouldn't notice those. The Athlons run under full load pretty much 24/7 thanks to a mess of servers running on some, windows on others, and seti@home on all of them. -Allen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message