Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 00:52:01 +0200 From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@FreeBSD.org> To: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 as nfs-server Message-ID: <B589A45197D86CC1756A095D@rambutan.pingpong.net>
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--On fredag, april 29, 2005 17.24.03 -0400 Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> wrote: > 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. It actually says "more than four real CPUs" <http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/todo.html>, so I thought I'd be safe. True, though, disabling hyperthreading seems to fix the problem... /Palle
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