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Date:      Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:20:29 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        dima <_pppp@mail.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re[3]: interrupt routing
Message-ID:  <20050209101735.Q13316@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <E1CynbF-000KKI-00._pppp-mail-ru@f17.mail.ru>
References:  <E1CynbF-000KKI-00._pppp-mail-ru@f17.mail.ru>

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On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, dima wrote:

> > Ah, so they are all on the same bus.  Yuck, performance is going to be
> > sucky. Bad Tyan, no cookie.  That'll also explain the limited number of
> > interrupts available.  I don't think there's anything we can do to help
> > the situation, sadly.
> I cannot affect the company equipment purchase policy either :/
> 2 more servers on Tyan motherboards perform pretty bad also.

Well this IS PC hardware we're talkinga bout here. :)

If you can show that some other OS is able to confgiure an alternate
interrupt then it might just be something up with ACPI.

> Well, I dont experience any problems with the base system (the server
> has 4G of physical RAM btw). The ports collection isnt amd64-ready
> though. I compiled some ports patching their makefiles but some of them
> dont compile at all. Say, I failed to build vnc server from ports (I
> needed it to install Oracle) the only one I managed to build was an
> ancient realvnc (3.3.7), but I couldnt connect to it. I tried to compile
> realvnc 4.x from sources but ran into namespace issues (they were
> discussed on another thread here regarding some software package; seems
> to be a buggy gcc). So, Ive given up and happily installed an i386
> version.

Well, thats not a failing of the ports system itself :-)  Did you report
your problems to the port maintainers?

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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