From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 15 16: 8:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from snoop.burghcom.com (burgcom.cust.stargate.net [209.166.166.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 75B9337B43E for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 16:08:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jl@burghcom.com) Received: (qmail 84316 invoked from network); 15 Apr 2001 23:08:12 -0000 Received: from host111.64-31-14.bignet.net (HELO celery) (64.31.14.111) by snoop.burghcom.com with SMTP; 15 Apr 2001 23:08:12 -0000 Message-ID: <002101c0c600$55cfdf40$060aa8c0@celery> From: "JL" To: "Hartmann, O." , Cc: References: Subject: Re: Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 19:03:49 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've had 180+ day uptimes on SMP FreeBSD4.x servers. I have never had one reboot unless I type the command. Jeff Love ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hartmann, O." To: Cc: Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 6:48 PM > Dear Sirs. > > I would like to ask for stability for several SMP systems running > FreeBSD. > As I heard about some rumours SMP systems under FreeBSD tend to reboot > spontanously after a while and the fact, that we here reboot our systems > nearly every week due a frequent cvsupdate, I feel a little bit confused > and would like to hear about other experiences. > > Our mainservers use TYAN's Thunder 2500 mainboard with AMI MegaRAID Enterprise > 1600 RAID controllers and all other servers use SCSI, not IDE. > I realized, that switching APM on in the kernel of the TYAN SMP system > causes the system to reboot sponanously, maybe due the fact that the BIOS (1.4) > is not APM capable (why for servers?). > > All right, to make this short: are there any experiences about how long SMP > systems under recent FreeBSD systems can run under heavy or moderate load > and keep on duty without forced reboots or reboot by crash? > > The focus should be on ServerWorks based chipsets used with SCSI and modern > SMP boards of the lower range of the pricing list, like ASUS CUV4X-D. > > We use TYAN (Thunder 2500, LSI869 and LSI1010 based Slot-1 boards) and > ASUS CUV4X-d boards (FC-PGA) with SCSI equipment. > > Nearby: I heard about a roumor that ServerWorks based IDE systems tend to > have problems. > Please then note this: we have two ASUS A7V based system, both the same CPU, > both the same memory type, both the same newest BIOS revision, but one is SCSI, > one is IDE (ATA100) based. We changed SCSI and IDE (swapping the drives) and > for that, this phenomenon was stuck on IDE: 'shutdown -r now' does not work > on IDE, we must reboot our system by 'reboot'. > > -- > MfG > O. Hartmann > > ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > IT-Administration des Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz > Becherweg 21 > 55099 Mainz > > Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinensaal) > Tel: +496131/3924144 > FAX: +496131/3923532 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message