From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 2 15:09:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84DC516A4CE for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:09:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B28C43FA3 for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:09:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hA2N9rfY054027; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:09:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.10/8.12.9/Submit) id hA2N9rH3054026; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:09:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:09:53 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: daneel Message-ID: <20031102230953.GC52801@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20031101074159.GA1146@solfoo.ath.cx> <20031102202912.GE52314@dragon.nuxi.com> <20031102221007.GA962@solfoo.ath.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031102221007.GA962@solfoo.ath.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 on Tyan Thunder K8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 23:09:57 -0000 On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 02:10:07PM -0800, daneel wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 12:29:12PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 11:41:59PM -0800, daneel wrote: > > > Using a production bios on this board with acpi enabled. Thought I > > > would post the dmesg to confirm that it is bios related and not > > > a bug of sorts. Thanks much. > > > > Which Tyan Thunder K8? There are several? > > On the Tyan 2880 motherboard. Configuration is one Opteron 240 and > 2 gigs of ram with bank and node interleaving turned on in acpi mode. BTW, setting "node interleaving" on doesn't make sense with one CPU. In general people see better performance with it turned off when >1 CPU. But some real world enterprise workloads get higher performance with it turned on. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)