From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 4 15:41:48 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 15:41:46 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.home.hentschel.net (d83b0468.dsl.flashcom.net [216.59.4.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDDC537B400 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 15:41:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from hentschel.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by falcon.home.hentschel.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eB4NiKr96213; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 15:44:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thomas@hentschel.net) Message-Id: <200012042344.eB4NiKr96213@falcon.home.hentschel.net> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 15:44:19 -0800 (PST) From: thomas@hentschel.net Subject: Re: Xeon To: Tom Cc: Noor Dawod , FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 4 Dec, Tom wrote: > [snip] > > I find it strange that lots of people are trying (booting) FreeBSD on > large x86 SMP systems, but no one seems to be using them in production. not true : > uname -a FreeBSD beast.xxxxxxxx.com 4.0-STABLE FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #6: Thu May 11 02:16:38 PDT 2000 thomas@beast.xxxxxxx.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/BEAST i386 > dmesg | grep cpu cpu0 (BSP): apic id: 3, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 cpu1 (AP): apic id: 0, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 cpu2 (AP): apic id: 2, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 cpu3 (AP): apic id: 1, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 > uptime 3:36PM up 205 days, 3:30, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 That's a 4xPIII-500 Xeon, which does quite a bit of Apache-SSL / Perl CGI serving. Doesn't recently get hit as hard as it used to, (a .com on it's way out ?) but it's been very stable. -Th To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message