From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jun 13 13:43:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA05784 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 13:43:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from papillon.lemis.com (rider.dunham.org [207.170.123.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA05710 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 13:42:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (grog@localhost) by papillon.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id PAA00446; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 15:38:47 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19980613153845.17252@papillon.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 15:38:45 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: IBS / Andre Oppermann Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Seen on a Compaq Proliant References: <19980612154747.58903@papillon.lemis.com> <358284E4.4A6A8CD@pipeline.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <358284E4.4A6A8CD@pipeline.ch>; from IBS / Andre Oppermann on Sat, Jun 13, 1998 at 03:55:48PM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 13 June 1998 at 15:55:48 +0200, IBS / Andre Oppermann wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> I'm currently in Austin TX working up to a database benchmark on >> various Tandem^H^H^H^H^H^HCompaq platforms, and we're just setting up >> a Proliant 6500 machine with UnixWare (4xPPro 200 MHz, 1 GB memory). >> For some reason, they decided to max out the main memory, and added >> another 1.25 GB. The kernel loaded and then said "too little memory >> to boot SMP". We took out 500 MB and it booted fine :-) > > Do you have any chance to run -current on it? *smile* Not this time. I was talking to one of the developers of NonStop clusters yesterday evening, and he thinks it should be possible to port Tandem^H^H^H^H^H^HCompaq's clustering technology to FreeBSD. That doesn't mean that we'll get any kind of permission, of course. I would like to try to get something running on the Proliant, though. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message