Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 11:04:57 -0500 From: "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" <john.cagle@hp.com> To: "John Baldwin" <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, <freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.org> Cc: twibmtc@yahoo.com.tw Subject: RE: FreeBSD support in SMP platform Message-ID: <C50AB9511EE59B49B2A503CB7AE1ABD10661176E@cceexc19.americas.cpqcorp.net>
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> From: John Baldwin >=20 > On Friday 04 June 2004 09:20 am, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > Hi, > > > > twibmtc@yahoo.com.tw wrote: > > > Dear ALL > > > > > > I am james wang working at IBM taiwan. Recently, I tried=20 > to install > > > > > > FreeBSD V5.2 in IBMx455 ( Xeon CPU, 8 Way ), system. > > > > > > One way ( One CPU ) works well but system complaint to us when > > > > > > I installed 8 Ways CPU in system. > > > > Hyperthreading must be disabled because FreeBSD supports=20 > only 8 CPUs as > > I know. > > > > I run it with only two CPUs without any problems. >=20 > FreeBSD will see and support up to 16 CPUs, but it won't be=20 > very stable on=20 > probably more than 4 or 6. If anyone is interested in making FreeBSD more stable on 8 & 16-ways, let me know. I have a ProLiant DL740 with 8 HTT processors that we could use for testing. Regards, John ----------------------------- John Cagle john.cagle@hp.com HP Distinguished Technologist ProLiant Software Development Hewlett-Packard Company
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