From owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 4 09:05:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70CAE16A4CE; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:05:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ztxmail04.ztx.compaq.com (ztxmail04.ztx.compaq.com [161.114.1.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ACF043D41; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:05:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john.cagle@hp.com) Received: from cceexg13.americas.cpqcorp.net (cceexg13.americas.cpqcorp.net [16.81.1.35]) by ztxmail04.ztx.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB0AB41E; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 11:05:11 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cceexc19.americas.cpqcorp.net ([16.81.1.19]) by cceexg13.americas.cpqcorp.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Fri, 4 Jun 2004 11:05:09 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.6944.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 11:04:57 -0500 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: FreeBSD support in SMP platform Thread-Index: AcRKSxRIelkUQ5h3R0CJYbgWHOS6IwAAnvdA From: "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" To: "John Baldwin" , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Jun 2004 16:05:09.0938 (UTC) FILETIME=[B5FC8920:01C44A4D] cc: twibmtc@yahoo.com.tw Subject: RE: FreeBSD support in SMP platform X-BeenThere: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD SMP implementation group List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:05:39 -0000 > 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