From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 6 12:40: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gargoyle.apana.org.au (brisba6.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.66.200]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D0423DE1 for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2000 12:40:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by gargoyle.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA22718; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 06:40:27 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle.apana.org.au(203.3.126.130), claiming to be "ORACLE" via SMTP by gargoyle.apana.org.au, id smtpdA22714; Mon Feb 7 06:40:22 2000 Message-ID: <025c01bf70e3$0960f720$827e03cb@ORACLE> From: "Doug Young" To: "Julie" , References: <020301bf70b3$3a8eb0b0$827e03cb@ORACLE> <389DCA23.CF288614@ix.netcom.com> Subject: Re: SMP Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 06:44:55 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK ...... still I can't see that SMP & PPP are an incompatible combination .... at least SMP & user-PPP, as my setup runs just fine. I have seen a number of reports of problems with the kernel-PPP but those look more like configuration issues than anything. The reason I moved from linux to FreeBSD was because of the seemingly endless problems I experienced with all linuxes I tried, especially when messing with the kernel. Even though there's been a steep learning curve, FreeBSD has been infinitely more straightforward :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julie" To: "Doug Young" ; Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 5:23 AM Subject: Re: SMP > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message