From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 10 18:30:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A578616A4CE for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:30:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl (fia148-72.dsl.hccnet.nl [62.251.72.148]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E08543D31 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:30:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from colin@kozy-kabin.nl) Received: from localhost (colin@localhost) by kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl (8.11.6p2/8.11.6) with ESMTP id iBAJRW802371 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:27:33 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl: colin owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:27:32 +0000 From: "Colin J. Raven" To: FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: <41B9E715.3000107@raad.tartu.ee> Message-ID: References: <36661.194.210.13.66.1102680032.squirrel@194.210.13.66> <41B9E715.3000107@raad.tartu.ee> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: [Fwd: HTT/SMP servers instability on 5.3-STABLE] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:30:58 -0000 On Dec 10, Toomas Aas launched this into the bitstream: > klr@6s-gaming.com wrote: > >> Please share some common dual processor system knowledge, perhaps I'm >> missing something really obvious and making these servers unstable. > > For more than a month now, I've been running a Dual Xeon 2000 system (IBM > eServer xSeries 225) with 5.3-RC2 and later upgraded to 5.3-RELEASE and I > have no problems at all. Hyperthreading is disabled in BIOS, ACPI is enabled. Excuse me for jumping into this thread but could you elaborate as to why you have Nyperthreading disabled? We're about to run a dual cpu box ourselves so this is highly relevant (as well as just plain 'ol fascinating!!) Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven NetBSD on a Cobalt Qube2 - http://www.NetBSD.org - Fri Dec 10 19:27:00 UTC 2004 7:27PM up 3:40, 5 users, load averages: 1.27, 1.18, 1.17