From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Jul 26 10:13:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [12.9.219.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9483114D27 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 10:13:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Received: from HARLIE.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [12.9.219.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA31775; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 10:12:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 10:12:37 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: Joachim Strombergson Cc: Fabio Cesar Gozzo , "freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Dual PIII motherboard In-Reply-To: <379C2A98.73172686@emw.ericsson.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Joachim Strombergson wrote: > I bought the amazing ABIT BP6 Dual Celeron MB this saturday with two > Celeron 366 PPGAs. It runs several SETIs in FreeBSD SMP at home right > now. Also, I got it to boot and run for ~4 hours in 2*550MHz! In short: > Want a cheap SMP system that works with FreeBSD, get the ABIT BP6 and > some Celerons. I did the same thing this weekend, but am having minor problems, probably heat related (sig 11 after an hour or so of makedepend/make world in single-CPU mode). The more cautious may want to go with 333s. I would have, but couldn't find OEM 333s, only retail, and Las Vegas is dusty enough that most fans only last a year at best. Still more heatsink/grease combo's to try, so I haven't given up on 550, but I'll be happy at dual-510, quite the jump from dual-PPro200(512k cache). (Yes, I know overclocking is not for everyone, and certainly not for anyone that isn't willing to experiment alot to get a stable system). Now if only there were a way to get the temp/fan RPM data from within freebsd, so I don't have to reboot to check the CPU temp while I'm stress-testing :-) I remember some discussion about that on one of the other lists, but don't remember there being an answer, and can't even remember if there is a standard for the hardware interface for that kind of info. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message