Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 01:02:36 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "wellsian" <wellsian@caffeine.com>, "Julie" <jar557@ix.netcom.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SMP Message-ID: <020301bf70b3$3a8eb0b0$827e03cb@ORACLE> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002051953420.1795-100000@boris.netgate.net>
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FWIW I've been running an archaic dual P100 FreeBSD 3.2 box / SMP kernel as a gateway to my LAN for months without the slightest sign of overheating, even during a recent hot spell when local temperatures reached about 40C (inside the case would have been well over 50C) .... but then I never overclock CPU's. Another machine running a Celeron 400 with onboard temperature sensor started beeping frantically til I removed the covers & let some of the heat inside escape. I've never had a spontaneous reboot with FreeBSD (or SCO / Solaris / Win2000 for that matter) although I did run an AMD K6/2-300 with WinNT4 at one stage that did weird stuff like that fairly often. ----- Original Message ----- From: "wellsian" <wellsian@caffeine.com> To: "Julie" <jar557@ix.netcom.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 2:18 PM Subject: Re: SMP > I'm not using PPP but one thing to watch for is that fbsd will load an SMP > system heavily even when "idle". This can tax cpu cooling on overclocked > systems and result in magical reboots. There are semi-recent threads on > SMP vs. overclocking somewhere in the stable or current group archives. > (use GeoCrawler until the natural version is resurrected): > > http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/FreeBSD/ > > One of my systems is running 2x366 celerons @458. Not impressive by most > standards, but those chips are borderline rejects. Using SMP heats them up > very quickly until the, uh, auxiliary fans kick in. > > Good luck, > Dave > > On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Julie wrote: > > > Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 19:35:39 -0500 > > From: Julie <jar557@ix.netcom.com> > > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: SMP > > > > Just wondering if anyone has had any problems using SMP with FreeBSD. > > Getting ready to install it on a box with Dual Celeron 450's overclocked > > at 550, with 512 megs of ram. Had major issues getting slackware to > > run, the solution there being to install it with smp, then recompile a > > new kernel around the smp, that had ppp support. Just curious if anyone > > is having the same problems with FreeBSD. > > > > Any help is appreciated. > > > > ~Julie > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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