From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 16 17:59:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rhall.sc.scruznet.com (rhall.sc.scruznet.com [165.227.39.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58C6837B423 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 17:59:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@rhall.sc.scruznet.com) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by rhall.sc.scruznet.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f3H0xkD90112 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 17:59:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 17:59:46 -0700 From: Mailing List Owner To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20010416175946.A79875@rhall.sc.scruznet.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de on Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:48:42AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I run several production sites that depend on multi-processor FreeBSD systems. My oldest is running 4.0 release on an L440Gx+ Intel board with dual PIII 500 mhz processors. I have an uptime of over 300 days. These servers are abused on a daily basis and have never exhibited any abnormal behavior. I have systems from 4.0 -> 4.3RC running on multi-proc Intel boxes, all with the L440GX+, and have never had a problem. Roland Hall rhall@rhall.sc.scruznet.com On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:48:42AM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: > Dear Sirs. > > I would like to ask for stability for several SMP systems running > FreeBSD. > As I heard about some rumours SMP systems under FreeBSD tend to reboot > spontanously after a while and the fact, that we here reboot our systems > nearly every week due a frequent cvsupdate, I feel a little bit confused > and would like to hear about other experiences. > > Our mainservers use TYAN's Thunder 2500 mainboard with AMI MegaRAID Enterprise > 1600 RAID controllers and all other servers use SCSI, not IDE. > I realized, that switching APM on in the kernel of the TYAN SMP system > causes the system to reboot sponanously, maybe due the fact that the BIOS (1.4) > is not APM capable (why for servers?). > > All right, to make this short: are there any experiences about how long SMP > systems under recent FreeBSD systems can run under heavy or moderate load > and keep on duty without forced reboots or reboot by crash? > > The focus should be on ServerWorks based chipsets used with SCSI and modern > SMP boards of the lower range of the pricing list, like ASUS CUV4X-D. > > We use TYAN (Thunder 2500, LSI869 and LSI1010 based Slot-1 boards) and > ASUS CUV4X-d boards (FC-PGA) with SCSI equipment. > > Nearby: I heard about a roumor that ServerWorks based IDE systems tend to > have problems. > Please then note this: we have two ASUS A7V based system, both the same CPU, > both the same memory type, both the same newest BIOS revision, but one is SCSI, > one is IDE (ATA100) based. We changed SCSI and IDE (swapping the drives) and > for that, this phenomenon was stuck on IDE: 'shutdown -r now' does not work > on IDE, we must reboot our system by 'reboot'. > > -- > MfG > O. Hartmann > > ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > IT-Administration des Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz > Becherweg 21 > 55099 Mainz > > Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinensaal) > Tel: +496131/3924144 > FAX: +496131/3923532 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message