Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 21:41:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: SMP on Gigabyte 6BXD -- works Message-ID: <199907271941.VAA06647@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Hi,
The SMP web page at www.freebsd.org invites to send reports
about working hardware to the freebsd-smp list, so here is my
report. If there's anyone in charge of maintaing the list of
working SMP hardware on the web site, he/she can add this.
Mainboard: Gigabyte 6BXD (intel 440BX chipset, 2 x slot1)
Processors: 2 x Celeron-466, using MSI-6905 slot adapters
make -j 8 buildworld (with -O -pipe and NOSUIDPERL, /usr/src in
an MFS, /usr/obj on an IBM DCAS (Fast-SCSI, 5400 rpm) with
soft-updates enabled):
2741.92s user 1331.91s system 147% cpu 45:56.80 total
I also used an MSI-6120N mainboard instead of the Gigabyte one
for some time, but it had a somewhat worse memory bandwidth.
So if you have to choose between Gigabyte and MSI, then get a
Gigabyte mainboard.
Furthermore, I had both Celerons (Celeroni?) running at 525 MHz
(75 instead of 66 MHz FSB) for a few weeks, it was rock-stable
(I guess I was lucky to get two "good" ones).
However, I "downgraded" back to the native 466 MHz because the
box will go into serious use soon, and reliability is the most
important thing. The above buildworld was done at the normal
clockrate of 466 MHz, of course.
Regards
Oliver
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