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Date:      Mon, 4 Dec 2000 15:44:19 -0800 (PST)
From:      thomas@hentschel.net
To:        Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
Cc:        Noor Dawod <noor@comrax.com>, FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Xeon 
Message-ID:  <200012042344.eB4NiKr96213@falcon.home.hentschel.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10012041512240.13847-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>

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On  4 Dec, Tom wrote:
> 
[snip]
> 
>   I find it strange that lots of people are trying (booting) FreeBSD on
> large x86 SMP systems, but no one seems to be using them in production.
 
not true :

> uname -a
FreeBSD beast.xxxxxxxx.com 4.0-STABLE FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #6: Thu May 11 02:16:38 PDT 2000     thomas@beast.xxxxxxx.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/BEAST  i386
> dmesg | grep cpu
 cpu0 (BSP): apic id:  3, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000
 cpu1 (AP):  apic id:  0, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000
 cpu2 (AP):  apic id:  2, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000
 cpu3 (AP):  apic id:  1, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000
> uptime
 3:36PM  up 205 days,  3:30, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

That's a 4xPIII-500 Xeon, which does quite a bit of Apache-SSL /
Perl CGI serving. Doesn't recently get hit as hard as it used to, (a
.com on it's way out ?) but it's been very stable.

-Th



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