From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 4 19:56:33 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 19:56:31 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from browning.pennasoft.com (acs-24-154-28-99.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B10D337B400; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 19:56:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by browning.pennasoft.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eB53vtZ00752; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 22:57:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 22:57:55 -0500 (EST) From: Chris BeHanna Sender: behanna@zbzoom.net Reply-To: behanna@zbzoom.net To: Tom Cc: Mike Smith , Noor Dawod , FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List Subject: Re: Xeon In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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.) -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net Remove "bogus" before responding. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message