From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 9 12:11:47 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B6C5106569D for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 12:11:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8AE98FC12 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 12:11:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KnuMp-00060u-Fb for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:11:43 +0000 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:11:43 +0000 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:11:43 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:12:10 +0200 Lines: 57 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig73772482295EEEC7F68A9AA2" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080925) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Sender: news Subject: Re: 6-CORE Dunnington X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:11:47 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig73772482295EEEC7F68A9AA2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mars G Miro wrote: > Someone mentioned the same boot hangup problems I've had and the 'fix' > was to boot to some other OS first, like Linux. I tried Slackware 12.1 That was me... > (also hangs somewhere during boot) and then Ubuntu 8.04 (am able to go > into the install screen) but rebooting back to freebsd is no go. Then Hmm, Ubuntu (64-bit) worked for me. > I recalled we were able to successfully install 64-bit Windows 2003 > Server on it. So I booted it to the windows 2003 server just to the > point where it asks to install it, then rebooted it to the already > installed FreeBSD. So the problem looks like it has something to do with hardware initialization. > Also it detects only 16CPUs instead of 24. Win2k3 detects all 24. On Wed Oct 1 21:59:04 2008 John Baldwin increased the limit on CPUs to 32 for both AMD64 and i386. There is ongoing work to increase this to 64 CPUs in the 64-bit version. >=20 > make -j16 buildworld: 4442.721u 3236.681s 16:29.50 776.0% > 6064+6203k 539+8258io 15117pf+0w >=20 > But I have an HP DL380 Quad-Core Xeon that rebuilds the world in just > 13 minutes :-p 21 minutes with 2x4-core 1.86 GHz Xeon :( --------------enig73772482295EEEC7F68A9AA2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFI7fUbldnAQVacBcgRAo1WAKDNTOGju5mfQyr9dqbOiy1w/JhY4QCghM0E WDZK+Ca82sWEIoaHOb1lE94= =OwpD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig73772482295EEEC7F68A9AA2--