Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 22:57:55 -0500 (EST) From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Noor Dawod <noor@comrax.com>, FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Xeon Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012042256270.386-100000@browning.pennasoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10012041512240.13847-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Tom wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Mike Smith wrote:
>
> > > Large SMP configurations (> 4 processors) could be an issue, but that
> > > wouldn't be the fault of the Xeon support but an SMP issue.
> > > However, I did see an e-mail early this year about someone
> > > booting FreeBSD on a 8 CPU Xeon server.
> >
> > I booted 4.1 SMP on an 8-way ProFusion box. (8 x PIII/Xeon-700)
> > It worked as expected.
>
> 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.
>
> What are OS are people running on large x86 SMP systems?
Dynix/ptx
(Well, you asked.)
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Chris BeHanna
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