Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 09:39:33 +0100 From: Remy Nonnenmacher <remy.nonnenmacher@activnetworks.com> To: rondzierwa@comcast.net, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sun x4500 and smp Message-ID: <5507E845.40701@activnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <1346086351.8355778.1426536687864.JavaMail.zimbra@comcast.net>
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Hi Ron, Fighted the same problem on mine. It seems to be a problem of interrupts dynamic routing on those old good opterons. I fixed it by sticking all interrupts to processor 0 (cpuset -l 0 -x ..). Since then, it works without any trouble. On 03/16/15 21:11, rondzierwa@comcast.net wrote: > I am using a sunfire x4500 (thumper) with a pair of dual-core opteron 290 processors, running 10.1-RELEASE to serve up zfs filesystems via nfs and samba. > > The system reboots periodically when under load. I cannot find anything in any of the system logs that would account for why it rebooted, it just goes away for a while and comes back in a few minutes. > > Out of desperation, I tried disabling all but one of the processors. (hint.lapic.x.disabled=1 where x == 1, 2 and 3). Oddly enough the system doesn't reboot anymore. > > Is there any known issues about SMP not working on a sunfire x4500? I have searched the mail archives and haven't found anything useful. > > thanks in advance for any help or suggestions. > ron. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-amd64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >home | help
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