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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:41:09 +0100 (CET)
From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
To: User Raymond <raymond@one.com.au>
Subject: RE: The need for speed
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I really have no clue but I'd try removing all but the 1st processor and try
again. Maybe the install prog gets confused by the wealth of processors?

/M

On 13-Nov-2001 User Raymond wrote:
> 
> We use uni and dual processor PIII systems with FreeBSD and the MUMPS
> language (it's an ANSI database language - see http://www.mumps.org/ ).
> The language and application tend to be mainly processor bound (due
> to the poor coding in the language, mine).  I'm looking for more speed
> than a dual 1GHZ PIII system for a largish customer - to this end I'm
> attempting to boot FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE on an Intel server with
> 4 x Pentium xeon 700MHZ processors, each with 1MB cache.
> 
> Wether I boot from floppy or CD, this thing immediately halts
> (no twirling batton at all) with "BTX halted" after a lot of numbers.
> (I can copy down all the crash screen if this is any use to anyone.)
> 
> So - two questions...
> 
> 1. Have I encountered a known (fixable) problem?
> 
> 2. What is the best way to go to get more grunt than a dual 1GHZ PIII?
> 
> 
> Ray Newman
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