From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 14 02:22:27 2005 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 45FB716A4CE for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 02:22:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.cs.ait.ac.th (mail.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E60E43D31 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 02:22:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from on@cs.ait.ac.th) Received: from banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (banyan.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.5]) by mail.cs.ait.ac.th (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j0E2MN4m089457 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:22:24 +0700 (ICT) Received: (from on@localhost) by banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (8.13.1/8.12.11) id j0E2MNdr002923; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:22:23 +0700 (ICT) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:22:23 +0700 (ICT) Message-Id: <200501140222.j0E2MNdr002923@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> From: Olivier Nicole To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <182233524.20050113205707@wanadoo.fr> (message from Anthony Atkielski on Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:57:07 +0100) References: <200501131218.j0DCIMrx002556@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <182233524.20050113205707@wanadoo.fr> X-Virus-Scanned: on CSIM by amavisd-milter (http://www.amavis.org/) Subject: Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3? 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, 14 Jan 2005 02:22:27 -0000 > The other AMD processor, on my server, dramatically overheated for 8-12 > hours at a time (process stuck in a loop--I never found out why). It > damaged something that failed intermittently at first (segment > violations in the kernel and in daemons that should never have such > problems), then got worse and worse over a few days, until it failed > completely. It was not my machine, maybe it had been giving some warnings, but the one in charge failed to notice them. > I decided to build my own. I was tired of not knowing what was inside > the machine, and finding out the hard and expensive way that many > corners had been cut. I also got tired of having stacks and stacks of I rely on a shop that I trust, and for servers, I give the exact requirements :) And of course I always open a new box before I power it on... > unused stereo mini-speakers, ultra-cheap keyboards, and equally cheap > mice. Not to mention paying for Windows and a boatload of absolutely At least we do not pay for Windows, that is Thailand :) (partial BS as we have a site licence for Windows, shame!) Olivier