Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:13:31 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0 release date and stability Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.0.20051017215901.045afa88@64.7.153.2> In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20051017195314.080f90f8@lariat.org> References: <200510152346.RAA20742@lariat.net> <6.2.3.4.0.20051017202509.0869bc58@64.7.153.2> <6.2.5.6.2.20051017195314.080f90f8@lariat.org>
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At 09:56 PM 17/10/2005, Brett Glass wrote: >At 06:38 PM 10/17/2005, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > >Two of our scanners in the cluster are SMP boxes-- dual core AMD > running in 386 mode and an Intel D830. > >Both work really well, and take quite a load against them network > / cpu wise. Lots of threads running. > >Also have FAST_IPSEC clients and a server running RELENG_6 from > around Beta 1. > >How is AMD in AMD64 mode? Dont know. I only run it in i386 mode and its fast and runs VERY cool. The reaction to touching the Intel D830 heat sinks (CPU or MB) are typically "Aeeiiiii!!!! It burns It burns!!!!", the reaction to touching the AMD is typical, "Is this thing on ?" Head to head, the 3800 X2 beats out the D830 for spam / virus scanning in our setup as well. >One thing we're looking at doing is deploying some single-core AMD64s. >Some of the motherboards use the NVidia NForce chipsets, so we need >to know if the nve driver works I have seen lots of problem reports with the nve. A board that works well for us and fits nicely in a 2U (probably with the right heat sink a 1U) is the ECS 480M. (http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?DetailID=506&MenuID=90&LanID=0) It uses the ATI chipset. Disk and NIC are supported. Onboard NIC is a Realtek (rl driver) which is pretty bug / problem free. Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ (1999.78-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x20fb1 Stepping = 1 Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT> Features2=0x1<SSE3> AMD Features=0xe2500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,LM,3DNow+,3DNow> AMD Features2=0x3<LAHF,CMP> Multicore: 2 physical cores pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 19.2 (no driver attached) pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 20.0 (no driver attached) atapci0: <ATI IXP400 UDMA133 controller> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xfd00-0xfd0f at device 20.1 on pci0 ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0 ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0 isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 20.3 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 20.4 on pci0 pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2 rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xdf00-0xdfff mem 0xfddff000-0xfddff0ff irq 22 at device 5.0 on pci2 miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0 rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0 rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto rl0: Ethernet address: 00:14:2a:1a:49:f6 pumice6]# atacontrol mode ad0 current mode = UDMA100 [pumice6]# atacontrol info ata0 Master: ad0 <ST340014A/3.06> ATA/ATAPI revision 6 Slave: no device present [pumice6]# ---Mike
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