Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:44:00 +0200 From: David Landgren <david@landgren.net> To: David King <dking@ketralnis.com> Cc: Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet@esiee.fr>, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proliant servers ? Message-ID: <44918E50.9010706@landgren.net> In-Reply-To: <7F2F1238-BB9B-48D5-A10B-B8F78D4D39A1@ketralnis.com> References: <44916D97.3000201@esiee.fr> <7F2F1238-BB9B-48D5-A10B-B8F78D4D39A1@ketralnis.com>
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David King wrote: >> I'm planning to replace our mailhub with a new HP Proliant 380 >> with 2 or 4 processors. > > I have an HP Netserver 6000r, 4x700mhz, 4GB RAM, 4x80GB scsi disks. It > will take up to six procs. It's presently running FreeBSD 5.4 without > incident > > It runs beautifully, and I'm sure it would take 6.1 without trouble at all. > >> I warmly welcome any feedback on admins that runs FreeBSD SMP >> 6.1 on that kind of machines with scsi disks. Similarly, I have 6000r with 6 CPUs, 4x18Gb disks and 2Gb RAM running 6.0-STABLE (as of February 2006). I haven't seen anything suspicious in any shape or form. You might have to disable ACPI (or APCI, I can never remember: the thing that does power management) explicitly, but that's probably a pretty sane thing to do on a server. I'm running 4.10 and 5.2.1 on a number of G3 DL-380s with HP SmartArray RAID setups and no real problems either, apart from cruft slowly building up (but hardly the fault of the OS). I would be pretty confident about installing 6.1 on them (and I probably will this summer). DAvid -- Much of the propaganda that passes for news in our own society is given to immobilising and pacifying people and diverting them from the idea that they can confront power. -- John Pilger
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