From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 20 19:32:22 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 372F516A46B for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:32:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bri@brianwhalen.net) Received: from entwistle.sonicboom.org (entwistle.sonicboom.org [66.93.34.170]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E29AD13C4CC for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:32:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bri@brianwhalen.net) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (entwistle.sonicboom.org [66.93.34.170]) by entwistle.sonicboom.org (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id lBKJ84wt002091; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:08:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bri@brianwhalen.net) Message-ID: <476ABD93.3080707@brianwhalen.net> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:08:03 -0800 From: Brian User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joshua Coombs References: <200712201706.lBKH6fwn067680@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7 on old SMP server? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:32:22 -0000 Joshua Coombs wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: >> >> > My hacked up 386 showed gains going from 6.2 to 7, the big win >> that I've > noticed is scp throughput, I can sustain 40 to 45kbps >> where in the past > the box walled at around 30kbps. Apache seems >> to have less latency > responding to gets also. I'm just running a >> 7b3 kernel at the moment, > I'm going to have to repartition with a >> lot more swap space to be able > to build a 7 world (When did the >> ram use for a buildworld skyrocket?!) > but even with this setup, 7 >> + ULE is a win for me. >> >> Are you saying you run FreeBSD 7 on an 80386(SX/DX) machine? >> How exactly did you hack it? As far as I know, support for >> 80386 processors was removed from FreeBSD a while ago. > > For a very short while with 6.0 I was tweaking the kernel to detect > 386s as 486s, as well as using CPU_DISABLE_CMPXCHG and having ok > luck. I've now got a Cyrix 486DrX-2 66 installed in place of my > Am386DX-40, which supports CMPXCHG as well as ID'ing as a 486 so I > don't need to do any tweaking to stay running. > > If I can get another viable 386DX box reassembled I'll see if 7 can be > pressed into functioning on it as 6 could. > > Joshua Coombs > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Would that be a multiday buildworld? Brian