Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 03:05:00 +0000 (GMT) From: "Matthew R. Briggs" <mbriggs@switchboard.net> To: Kyle Wayman <kwayman@tomservo.ee.calpoly.edu> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advice on SMP Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980626025722.230A-100000@penelope> In-Reply-To: <199806251829.LAA10249@tomservo.ee.calpoly.edu>
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Kyle, I have read of people using SMP PPro systems in production environments, and doubtless they will speak up, but I just wanted to mention that I have had (and am still having) a great deal of trouble with a dual-PII system and SMP-FreeBSD. The machine locks up easily and quite predictably under load and I/O, most frequently with a "Supervisor write, page not present" kernel panic. John Dyson was working on some patches that made SMP much more workable for me (yet still not bulletproof), but he recently left the FreeBSD project, and his patches no longer apply cleanly. Best of luck...I'm no kernel hacker, but I think I may have to become one if I want to get this fixed! Matt Briggs mbriggs@switchboard.net On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Kyle Wayman wrote: > I admin a system with about 800 users, about 3-400 moderately active. > We got a new server, a dual pentium pro 200. Our old server was > running FreeBSD, so it was nice to just stay with this OS so that > we would be sure that all our services would continue to work on > the new machine. Well, now we (my boss mostly) are anxious to get > the new server up to its full potential. I want to try FreeBSD SMP > but I want to know how likely it will work well enough for our needs > and how hard it would be to go back to a UP system if it doesn't > work out. Any help/comments would be appreciated. > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > = Kyle Wayman kwayman@ee.calpoly.edu = > = System Administrator office: 805-756-1390 = > = EE Department, Cal Poly, SLO page: 805-542-5777 = > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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
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