From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 28 6:47:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from morpheus.skynet.be (morpheus.skynet.be [195.238.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA79C37B422 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 06:47:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by morpheus.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1048E302; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:47:39 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000828193605.A290@zippy> References: <20000828193605.A290@zippy> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:46:20 +0200 To: Alex Zepeda , current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: SMP and softupdates? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 7:36 PM +0000 2000/8/28, Alex Zepeda wrote: > Perhaps in a rush to get started, I've compiled and > been using a SMP kernel even before the second processor arrives. This > has worked fine, however I've gotten some rather weird hangs and crashes > resulting in a nice lost+found directory on the usr fs. Personally, I'm astonished that an SMP kernel will actually boot and run on a uniprocessor machine. Before pointing any fingers at softupdates, etc... I think that the first thing I'd do on this machine is switch back to using a real uniprocessor kernel, and then see if I could replicate the problems. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message