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Date:      Sat, 2 Aug 1997 17:33:15 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Russell Vincent <rv@groa.uct.ac.za>
To:        edmond@shaman.lycaeum.org (Andrew N. Edmond)
Cc:        freebsd-smp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SMP reliability...
Message-ID:  <E0wugBA-0001j0-00@groa.uct.ac.za>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970802045850.21995I-100000@necropolis.org> from "Andrew N. Edmond" at Aug 2, 97 05:01:46 am

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Andrew N. Edmond wrote:
> I will be purchasing a four PPro200 processor ready sytsem soon, I'm gonna
> run it just one processor until the SMP code is ready to run mission
> critical and then slap another three processors in the box.

That depends what you are doing, I suppose. I have the following:

 5:21PM  up 22 days,  1:20, 1 user, load averages: 0.18, 0.19, 0.14

FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT (UNINET) #0: Fri Jul 11 15:07:18 SAT 1997

This is one of 5 dual-P5 (256MB RAM, 24GB disk) machines running
as a nationwide news and web cache network. The machines each
handle a relatively full newsfeed (feeding sites, no readers)
and full cache traffic for a few universities and smaller
educational/research institutions.

As you may note, 22 days ago was when I did the upgrade to that
version of -current. No problems with it (or the others) at all.
There are no performance problems and in fact I expect the
machines to be able to take a _lot_ more than they are getting.

I upgrade the machines (remotely) using CVSup and a make
world every couple of months (at the most). What a pleasure.  :-)
Many thanks to the FreeBSD team.

 -Russell




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