From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Sep 16 16:32: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mail-01.cdsnet.net (mail-01.cdsnet.net [206.107.16.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 435DE14FBC for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:31:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mrcpu@internetcds.com) Received: (qmail 10603 invoked from network); 16 Sep 1999 23:31:53 -0000 Received: from schizo.cdsnet.net (204.118.244.32) by mail.cdsnet.net with SMTP; 16 Sep 1999 23:31:53 -0000 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:31:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen X-Sender: mrcpu@schizo.cdsnet.net To: Mark Lastdrager Cc: Kevin Van Maren , freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, scrappy@hub.org Subject: Re: Quad-PIII...exists? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Yes, I saw similar results with a recent 3.2-stable kernel, but not with a kernel from around July. Same hardware. On the same box, with a kernel from the end of august, top takes about 20 seconds to display the list. Reboot with an older kernel, and it comes up in 1-2 seconds... Never could find a reason, so I ripped it out and put in single UNI boards for this application, and I'm happy. On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Mark Lastdrager wrote: > At Wed, 15 Sep 1999, owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG wrote: > > >Quad => Xeon => $$$. If it is going in a server, I'd recommend > >the Intel L440GX+ motherboard, since it has DUAL PCI busses. > >FreeBSD 3.2 runs on it just fine (although it doesn't recognize > >the AGP->PCI bridge for the 2 66MHz PCI slots, they work great). > >It's not so badly priced, when you consider the dual-channel > >Adaptec scsi and integrated ethernet (and 2MB video). > > I'm running 20 machines with Intel N440BX motherboards with dual PII-450 > (almost the same as the L440GX) and having trouble with the ethernet. At > very heavy load on the network (running Bonnie on a NetApp NFS mount) the > fxp drivers gives up and messages like 'fxp0: driver timeout' appear at > the console. Reboot is the only solution. The problem only occurs when > running in SMP mode. > > Mark Lastdrager > Pine Internet > > -- > email: mark@lastdrager.nl tel. +31-70-3111010 > http://www.pine.nl fax. +31-70-3111011 > PGP ID 92BB81D1 -- Security news @ http://security.pine.nl > Today's excuse: vapors from evaporating sticky-note adhesives > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message