From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 26 21: 5:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C2BC37B401 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 21:05:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.transactionware.com (mail.transactionware.com [203.14.245.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A4B0E43E88 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 21:05:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from janm@transactionware.com) Received: (qmail 2788 invoked from network); 27 Nov 2002 05:05:13 -0000 Received: from new.transactionware.com (192.168.1.55) by dm.transactionware.com with SMTP; 27 Nov 2002 05:05:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 12870 invoked by uid 1006); 27 Nov 2002 05:13:38 -0000 Received: from janm@transactionware.com by new.transactionware.com by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.10 (uvscan: v4.1.40/v4229. . Clear:0. Processed in 0.297139 secs); 27 Nov 2002 05:13:38 -0000 Received: from mosm1.transactionware.com (HELO mosm1) (192.168.1.130) by new.transactionware.com with SMTP; 27 Nov 2002 05:13:37 -0000 From: "Jan Mikkelsen" To: "'Maarten de Vries'" , Subject: RE: FreeBSD on IBM's X335 series Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:05:10 +1100 Organization: Transactionware Message-ID: <000701c295d2$90265fe0$fc5807ca@mosm1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 In-Reply-To: <005901c2954c$0d229ae0$490d3a91@nosinetmrtn> X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Maarten de Vries wrote: > - how well does FreeBSD install on IBM's X335 or X300 series > in general? > - does it cope well with this many CPU's and this much RAM? > - how well does Java perform on FBSD (I hear Java will part of the > basesystem)? > - how does threading work in FreeBSD? Is there something like > 'clone' or > 'sproc'? > > Any of your input will be much appreciated. I understood that the X335 only supported two CPUs. Are you counting each CPU twice because of hyperthreading? I have a client where we're running about a dozen X330s each with 2 x P3-1.2GHz, 1.5GB (some 2GB) and FBSD 4.5, with the native JDK 1.3.1. It works well, but it'll work better with Hotspot (now available, but I haven't had a chance to try it out). On FBSD 4, native threading will not take advantage of SMP: You need to have multiple processes. However, having said all this, the X330 and X335 are sufficiently different that the experience is meaningless for your purposes. IBM are now pushing the X335 over the X330, so I'm also interested in hearing about experiences. Regards, Jan Mikkelsen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message