From owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 26 11:54:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F242916A4CE for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 11:54:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from heathers.stdio.com (heathers.stdio.com [199.89.192.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1352343D2F for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 11:54:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kyle@openworldinc.com) Received: from localhost (kyle@localhost) by heathers.stdio.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i4QIrMk58959; Wed, 26 May 2004 14:53:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from kyle@openworldinc.com) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 14:53:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Kyle McPeek X-X-Sender: kyle@heathers.stdio.com To: Gerald In-Reply-To: <20040526131846.T73581@kod.inch.com> Message-ID: <20040526144041.W14613-100000@heathers.stdio.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Dell 2650 notes from the field? X-BeenThere: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD SMP implementation group List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 18:54:39 -0000 Hi, I am running 4.8-STABLE from Feb 20 on a dual 2.2GHz Dell 2650 with 2GB of memory. This machine is a production PostgreSQL server that maintains 100+ connections. I have enabled Hyperthreading and SMP. CPU: Intel(R) XEON(TM) CPU 2.20GHz (2192.90-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf24 Stepping = 4 Features=0x3febfbff Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs real memory = 2147418112 (2097088K bytes) avail memory = 2088140800 (2039200K bytes) It's current uptime is 95 days and the previous down time was due to maintainence. It has had double digit load averages (20-30) in the last 95 days. The machine just runs. The SCSI raid controller works very well and I have replaced drives before with no loss of uptime or functionality. You should have no problems running FreeBSD on this machine. kyle. On Wed, 26 May 2004, Gerald wrote: > CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz (2386.10-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf29 Stepping = 9 > Features=0xbfebfbff 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-smp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-smp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-smp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >