Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 17:27:04 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: SMP, Intel PR440FX, cpu monitoring, etc Message-ID: <v04011700b188ea4a23b5@[128.113.24.47]>
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Hi. There's a few topics I haven't been paying much attention to, but now that I bought a new PC they're suddenly of more immediate interest. www.insight.com as a great deal ($800!) on a 200MHz Pentium pro machine, so I bought one to replace another PC of mine which recently died. I didn't realize it when I bought it, but the PC (a Toshiba 6200M) has the Intel motherboard which will support a second Pentium Pro processor if I go out and buy one (and a VRM to go along with it...). It happens that a dual-processor system would be nice for some services I run, so suddenly I'm much more interested in the possibilities of SMP support in FreeBSD. I notice that the PR440FX is listed among the boards that are reported to work with FreeBSD's SMP (as it sits now). Is there anything I need to look out for, or can I just go out and buy another 200MHz PPro and hook it up? (note that I won't need this to work at all until Fall, and even then it doesn't have to be as a multiprocessor system). If I do get a second processor, and the SMP support isn't solid by fall, can I just run the regular (uniprocessor) release on it? The machine also came with scsi for the disk (not IDE) and fast ethernet, but I assume that wouldn't add any special issues as long as the SMP support itself is working. The other issue that this PC brings up is that it has some sort of monitoring capability to find out things like how hot the inside of the box is getting. This is of interest to me because my last PC died *because* of some air-conditioning problems in my office... Is it possible to query these monitors from FreeBSD current? (right now my machine is still running the WindowsNT that it came with, but I hope to have time to switch it over to freebsd this weekend). --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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