From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 9 0:25: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from omnix.net (omnix.net [195.154.168.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CF6D37B748 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 00:25:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from didier@omnix.net) Received: (qmail 29056 invoked by uid 200); 9 Mar 2000 08:25:01 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Mar 2000 08:25:01 -0000 Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 08:25:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Didier Derny To: "Corey D. Wheeler" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP Support for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <38C73728.38D50A54@euriscom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG smp generally works fine when the 2 processors are bought together from the same batch. I've never had any problem with Intel sealed packages with 3 years warranty. But I have many 'horror stories' / nightmares with bulk processors. I'v several smp machine working here without any problems (using FreeBSD 3.2-BETA and FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE) On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Corey D. Wheeler wrote: > 6 months purchased a dual processor Gigabyte motherboard and a PIII 500 > MHz processor which was running FreeBSD 3.4. The system has 512 MB RAM > and 2 18 GB Ultra2 SCSI hard drives. Everything was working great for > months until I added the second 500 MHz processor, recompiled the kernel > for SMP support and two processors, and restarted the system. Now, it > seems like once a day, the systems locks up for no apparent reason. > Everything, including the keyboard and firewall and networking all stop > working. I've ran the same hardware with Linux and no lock up problems > whatsoever. Is there some setting that I'm overlooking in the kernel or > is this some type of known (or unknown) problem with FreeBSD and SMP > support? I'd getting really desperate as I'd rather run FreeBSD any day > over Linux. Any suggestions or hints would certainly be appreciated. > > Thank You > Corey Wheeler > corey@euriscom.com > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message