From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 6 7:38:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from boris.netgate.net (boris2.netgate.net [204.145.147.155]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F10103D5E for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2000 07:37:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (wellsian@localhost) by boris.netgate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA06508; Sun, 6 Feb 2000 07:36:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wellsian@caffeine.com) Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 07:36:20 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Wells X-Sender: wellsian@boris.netgate.net To: Doug Young Cc: Julie , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP In-Reply-To: <020301bf70b3$3a8eb0b0$827e03cb@ORACLE> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes, fbsd SMP rocks. my message was specifically directed toward overclocked systems. Those who overclock, by definition, are pushing the specs and can expect problems if measures aren't taken to compensate. (That's where the work comes in.) A "spec" smp system will only have troubles if it's broken somehow, say, with a bad fan or excessive dust build-up. And that's in no way a fault of fbsd. FreeBSD's SMP implementation doesn't cause problems, it exposes them. Dave On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Doug Young wrote: > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message