From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 24 13:10: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC6AD37B6AE for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 13:10:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA28789; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 13:09:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 13:09:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n0b.san.rr.com To: Lanny Baron Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Kahn Subject: Re: Stable motherboards for servers. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Lanny Baron wrote: > Hello Doug, > I have been asking about SMP on questions, and you seem to have it running. Can > you tell me how many processors you can run? All of my boards have 2 PIII 500's or 550's. > Intel has some excellent products and we wish to use them with FreeBSD. The only reported problems I've seen in the last year or so are with Intel mb's that have an onboard Intel Etherexpress Pro 100 ethernet card and the sym/ncr scsi controller both in use at the same time. These problems are not universal, but they are a pita to track down when they happen. One thing I like about the L440GX+ mb is that it uses the Adaptec SCSI controller, which we have had zero problems with. > I am getting mail from others (who are > quite knowledgeable) indicating that there is something with kernel locking. Sorry, I don't know what this sentence means. Doug -- Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. -- W. Somerset Maugham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message