Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:37:05 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HTT/SMP Dual Xeon systems unstable Message-ID: <41C09261.2030806@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <200412150958.48432.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <56637.81.84.175.77.1102689148.squirrel@81.84.175.77> <200412150958.48432.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > > There is a problem in the kernel that causes with 3 or more processors > (including logical CPUs from HTT). Disabling HTT in the BIOS is probably > your best bet as it will get you down to 2 CPUs which should work much > better. HTT also isn't but so useful anyways for most workloads. The > instability problems have just been fixed in HEAD and will hopefully be MFC'd > for 5.4 btw. > It looks like I have lucked out so far, because I have this set up with no problems so far. I hope this fix gets to 5.x-stable soon because for my particular workloads HTT helps a lot. Stephen
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