From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 20 10:37:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA25692 for current-outgoing; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 10:37:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ady.warp.starnets.ro (ady.warp.starnets.ro [193.226.124.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA25684; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 10:37:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (ady@localhost) by ady.warp.starnets.ro (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA09352; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 20:35:37 +0300 (EEST) Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 20:35:37 +0300 (EEST) From: Penisoara Adrian To: Andreas Klemm cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need advice for SMP production server In-Reply-To: <19970720190117.09549@gtn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, On Sun, 20 Jul 1997, Andreas Klemm wrote: [...] > Generally I'd want to warn you, that -current is not the typical > environment for a production machine. You should use FreeBSD-2.2.2 > and cvsup the 2.2-STABLE version. Hmmm, I NEED to run SMP, so it's obvious I'm talking 3.0-current... > > On the other hand -current is since a long time in a very good > shape with only minor trouble from time to time. And it's the > only release, that has SMP capabilities. Personally I had no trouble since installation, except for the buggy SCSI driver (aic7xx in 970209-SNAP) which forced me to assist to about 20-25 reboots since then :) I know, I could have tried an cvsupped kernel, but that happened right in the middle of the 4.4BSD Lite2 'upgrade', and lazy/scary me I haven't the gods to do a make world ;) > > Since I use better hardware and have a new power supply, I had no > big trouble and am running a very fast 2 x 200 MHz PPro machine. Happy SMPfying ! BTW, overclocked ? (Mine not, and not gonna happen...) > > Andreas /// > > -- > Andreas Klemm | klemm.gtn.com - powered by > Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD > http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html > http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/benches.html > Ady (@warp.starnets.ro)