From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 17 19:25:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 231BF16A4CE for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 19:25:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from pgh.nepinc.com (pgh.nepinc.com [66.207.129.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6B9243D2D for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 19:25:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jimd@nepinc.com) Received: from jimslaptop.home.jcdurham.com (18.gibs5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.184.19]) (authenticated bits=0) by pgh.nepinc.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i1I3Qsfu038436; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 22:26:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jimd@nepinc.com) From: Jim Durham Organization: NEP Supershooters To: Olivier Cherrier , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 22:25:44 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200402172225.44020.jimd@nepinc.com> Subject: Re: Anybody Use 2 or More CPU at Production Env. ( SMP ) X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 03:25:51 -0000 On Monday 16 February 2004 04:13 am, Olivier Cherrier wrote: > >Seconded. We have a few hundred Dual SMP PIII and Dual Xeon (2.4Ghz w/ > >HT) machines running 4.9 without any hiccups whatsoever. > > Not so luck for me. > I tried some times to run a 4.7-smp and 4.8-smp on a dual PIII - 733 MHz > but I always falled in > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/48029 > which is still in the 'open' state. > > I can imagine that 5.x is far more stable. I have just put on some Dell 2650's with Dual Xeons on 4.9. In 5 years of running FreeBSD in a production environment, I had one wierd reboot a few years ago and that's all, until the Dells. The mail server has been up since September and it has rebooted once for no reason and the new file server has been done it three times in a month. i used to get 300 days and better of uptime with the old single-CPU systems, so this is sort of unnerving. Really, I used to take them down only for kernel upgrades and to blow out the dust! No log entries, no panic messages..just ...gone suddenly and rebooting. Seen anything like this at all with your Dual SMP Xeons? -Jim