Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:24:03 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mike Jakubik" <mikej@rogers.com> To: "Palle Girgensohn" <girgen@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 as nfs-server Message-ID: <1730.172.16.0.199.1114809843.squirrel@172.16.0.1> In-Reply-To: <42F0A677951F8710C0546786@rambutan.pingpong.net> References: <b41c755205042513532abd2387@mail.gmail.com> <42F0A677951F8710C0546786@rambutan.pingpong.net>
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On Fri, April 29, 2005 4:00 pm, Palle Girgensohn said: >> I'm getting a couple of Dell 2850's with dual EMT64 cpu's @ 2.8 GHz to >> replace our very trusty PIII-nfs-servers. I am accustomed to the >> rock-solid stability of the i386-port of the 5.x-branch and will >> probably put i386 on them. But has anyone used the amd64 coupled with PE >> 2850's as nfs-servers? They have onboard em-interfaces. >> > > Hi, > > > I do use 2850 w/ amd64, and with dual CPU and hyper threading, it is not > stable, it crashes a lot. I'm debugging it, we'll see what turns up. 5.x is known to be unstable with 4 CPUs. I bet you would be ok if you disabled hyper threading. But hopefully your debugging will help to determine the real problem.
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