From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Sep 15 14:22:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from atro.pine.nl (atro.pine.nl [212.206.16.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C634E14CD3 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 14:22:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@pine.nl) Received: from localhost by atro.pine.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA20743; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 23:22:17 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 23:22:17 +0200 (MET DST) From: Mark Lastdrager To: Kevin Van Maren Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, scrappy@hub.org Subject: Re: Quad-PIII...exists? In-Reply-To: <199909151936.NAA09306@fast.cs.utah.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At Wed, 15 Sep 1999, owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG wrote: >Quad => Xeon => $$$. If it is going in a server, I'd recommend >the Intel L440GX+ motherboard, since it has DUAL PCI busses. >FreeBSD 3.2 runs on it just fine (although it doesn't recognize >the AGP->PCI bridge for the 2 66MHz PCI slots, they work great). >It's not so badly priced, when you consider the dual-channel >Adaptec scsi and integrated ethernet (and 2MB video). I'm running 20 machines with Intel N440BX motherboards with dual PII-450 (almost the same as the L440GX) and having trouble with the ethernet. At very heavy load on the network (running Bonnie on a NetApp NFS mount) the fxp drivers gives up and messages like 'fxp0: driver timeout' appear at the console. Reboot is the only solution. The problem only occurs when running in SMP mode. Mark Lastdrager Pine Internet -- email: mark@lastdrager.nl tel. +31-70-3111010 http://www.pine.nl fax. +31-70-3111011 PGP ID 92BB81D1 -- Security news @ http://security.pine.nl Today's excuse: vapors from evaporating sticky-note adhesives To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message