From owner-freebsd-smp Sat Aug 2 08:33:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA27968 for smp-outgoing; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 08:33:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from groa.uct.ac.za (groa.uct.ac.za [137.158.128.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA27959 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 08:33:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rv by groa.uct.ac.za with local (Exim 1.653 #1) id 0wugBA-0001j0-00; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 17:33:16 +0200 Subject: Re: SMP reliability... To: edmond@shaman.lycaeum.org (Andrew N. Edmond) Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 17:33:15 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Andrew N. Edmond" at Aug 2, 97 05:01:46 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Content-Type: text Message-Id: From: Russell Vincent Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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