From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 19 05:27:27 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABD3667B for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 05:27:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: from kuller.raad.tartu.ee (kuller.raad.tartu.ee [213.184.43.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 535128FC13 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 05:27:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kuller.raad.tartu.ee (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kuller.raad.tartu.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70A2239885 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 07:17:39 +0200 (EET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at post.raad.tartu.ee Received: from kuller.raad.tartu.ee ([127.0.0.1]) by kuller.raad.tartu.ee (kuller.raad.tartu.ee [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id aFb1itElATVR for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 07:17:38 +0200 (EET) Received: by kuller.raad.tartu.ee (Postfix, from userid 80) id A937439882; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 07:17:37 +0200 (EET) Received: from 76.20.190.90.dyn.estpak.ee (76.20.190.90.dyn.estpak.ee [90.190.20.76]) by webmail.raad.tartu.ee (Horde Framework) with HTTP; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 07:17:37 +0200 Message-ID: <20121219071737.15514j97uh585t0k@webmail.raad.tartu.ee> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 07:17:37 +0200 From: Toomas Aas To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: CPU upgrade vs CPUTYPE MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.3.7) X-Originating-IP: 90.190.20.76 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 05:27:27 -0000 Hello! We have a small server running FreeBSD 8.3 amd64 with Intel Pentium D 945 CPU. As the motherboard/CPU combo is getting rather old, we are considering an upgrade to new motherboard with Xeon E3-1230 CPU. We currently have these CPU settings in /etc/make.conf: CPUTYPE?=nocona in kernel configuration: cpu HAMMER Almost all the software is built from ports, few bits compiled directly from source. Base system is maintained by buildworld. Can we expect the software compiled with above CPU settings to run without problems on the Xeon E3? We had a chance recently to try a temporary motherboard/CPU swap in this server, replacing the CPU with Core i3-2xxx and there were some 'signal 11' errors, but I'm not sure whether this was due to incompatible CPUTYPE or something else. Thanks in advance, -- Toomas Aas