From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 18 13:03:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8623616A4CE for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:03:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from unix18.sihope.com (unix18.sihope.com [207.195.195.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1422943D1F for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:03:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adamm@sihope.com) Received: from [207.195.195.190] (unixws1.sihope.com [207.195.195.190]) by unix18.sihope.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hBIL3GQF063449 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:03:16 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from adamm@sihope.com) From: Adam Maloney To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200312181951.hBIJpTjS031140@smtp.doruk.net.tr> References: <200312181951.hBIJpTjS031140@smtp.doruk.net.tr> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1071781395.5874.95.camel@unixws1> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:03:15 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Anybody Use 2 or More CPU at Production Env. ( SMP ) X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 21:03:18 -0000 > I watching freebsd-stable list I saw that somebody have a problem > with SMP support which they are using 4.9 . I know that some improvement are Hey, that was me! > coming with 5.x .... But this problem are very important for example > somebody when enable SMP support system start to reset itself or under high > load crashed ?!!!!! > Ours went down regardless of load - it was very consistent, every 30 minutes. This is the first time that we've had an issue with it. As I said in my post to -stable, we ran it as SMP under 4.8-REL and 4.8-STA perfectly until we upgraded to 4.9 in late November. The GENERIC 4.9-STA kernel worked fine for a couple of weeks without SMP turned on. It was just on Tuesday when we re-built the kernel with SMP support that we had the problems. For now we have gone back to single-processor mode and are operating normally again. > I wonder Does anybody use SMP Support without Problem . Because SMP > is very important things ... > > I wonder too What about HyperThreading ?! > We had "options HTT" defined in the config under 4.8, but under 4.9 you don't have to specify it anymore. So the only changes we made from the GENERIC kernel were "options SMP" and "options APIC_IO" I will (hesitantly, hoping to avoid the inevitable flame war that will follow) admit that the system is a Compaq Proliant 5500R with 4x500MHz Xeons. This is the only compaq we have, and the only multi-processor system we have running FreeBSD, so I can't compare our problems to anything else. I think in general the SMP support in FreeBSD is very good, and very stable. I'm relatively certain that my problem is specific to my hardware (IRQ sharing maybe). I can only pray that the FreeBSD gods have some further troubleshooting steps for me (I haven't checked the -stable list for replies yet...I'll cross my fingers). Adam Maloney Systems Administrator Sihope Communications