Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 22:40:17 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@scoop.co.nz> Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stability of RELENG_5_4 with dual Xeon Message-ID: <20050516054017.GA34089@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20050516171111.K522@a2.scoop.co.nz> References: <20050516171111.K522@a2.scoop.co.nz>
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--gKMricLos+KVdGMg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 05:35:36PM +1200, Andrew McNaughton wrote: >=20 > I'd be interested to hear people's recent experiences with Dual Xeons=20 > under load with SMP on and HTT off. >=20 > A while back there were stability problems with Dual Xeon machines. I've= =20 > got one of these in production with SMP turned off for the time being. I= =20 > figure at some point things are stable enough to enable the extra=20 > processor safely, but I don't have a spare machine for testing safely. >=20 > I gather there are still problems with Dual Xeon with both SMP and HTT=20 > turned on, but that turning HTT off helps. So the question is how stable= =20 > is that configuration? I'm not aware of any problems..are you sure weren't fixed long ago, or were due to e.g. outdated BIOSes or buggy hardware? Kris --gKMricLos+KVdGMg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCiDJBWry0BWjoQKURAsldAJwPp3dQ93eAEmfxw1aGV9EpiY36hACcDiCY 8Ug/HhpXu6aPq7SX8xM38Bg= =rsaa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gKMricLos+KVdGMg--
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