From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 6 11:22:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fb01.eng00.mindspring.net (fb01.eng00.mindspring.net [207.69.229.19]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57AF23D88 for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2000 11:22:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from ix.netcom.com (col-oh36-45.ix.netcom.com [207.220.179.45]) by fb01.eng00.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA20035; Sun, 6 Feb 2000 14:22:43 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <389DCA23.CF288614@ix.netcom.com> Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 14:23:15 -0500 From: Julie X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Young , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP References: <020301bf70b3$3a8eb0b0$827e03cb@ORACLE> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The problem that I have has nothing to do with overheating. Ive got the proper fans and things, and the temps stay low. What I need is a system that is going to run ppp, AND smp at the same time Without having to revert back to point and click, ie, windows. 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. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "wellsian" > To: "Julie" > Cc: > 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 > > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message