From owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 15 16:44:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D682116A492 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:44:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@landgren.net) Received: from sferics.mongueurs.net (sferics.mongueurs.net [81.80.147.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B97943D46 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:44:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from david@landgren.net) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (exo.bpinet.com [81.80.147.206]) by sferics.mongueurs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6D67A94C; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:44:00 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <44918E50.9010706@landgren.net> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:44:00 +0200 From: David Landgren Organization: The Lusty Decadent Delights of Imperial Pompeii User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David King References: <44916D97.3000201@esiee.fr> <7F2F1238-BB9B-48D5-A10B-B8F78D4D39A1@ketralnis.com> In-Reply-To: <7F2F1238-BB9B-48D5-A10B-B8F78D4D39A1@ketralnis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Frank Bonnet , freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proliant servers ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD SMP implementation group List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:44:02 -0000 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