From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 2 15:16:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4428616A4CE for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 15:16:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from snootles.jimz.net (snootles.jimz.net [69.55.224.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 453EB43D62 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 15:16:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@jimz.net) Received: (qmail 737 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2004 23:16:15 -0000 Received: from dsl093-000-243.det1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO ?192.168.1.4?) (jamesez@66.93.0.243) by snootles.jimz.net with (RC4-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 2 Feb 2004 23:16:15 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20040202145458.D75850@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <200401281727.58543.zec@tel.fer.hr> <20040128163803.GR35515@freebsd.org.ru> <20040202145458.D75850@carver.gumbysoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v612) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Jim Zajkowski Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 18:16:06 -0500 To: Doug White X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.612) X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.61 (1.212.2.1-2003-12-09-exp) on snootles.jimz.net X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.61 cc: "Sergey A. Osokin" cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.9-R on IBM xSeries 305 or Dell PowerEdge 650? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 23:16:31 -0000 On Feb 2, 2004, at 6:02 PM, Doug White wrote: > I have an x335 here, which apart from the keyboard not working due to > ACPI > wierdness, functions properly otherwise. Works as expected with ACPI > disabled. On my x335's I've found: a. I needed to disable ACPI too. b. On 5.1 I needed to step down the number of open tags (camcontrol tags) to 32 or less to prevent the whole thing from locking up. c. On 4.9 I needed to not enable the HTT "processors" or I got sluggish performance. The real SMP processors work fine. Same for you? --Jim