Andrew McNaughton wrote:
Aside from occasional problems booting the kernel, I've never had any problems with FreeBSD 5.3 or 5 Stable (a month before 5.4 release) using SMP. The only problem was a timing issue starting the second cpu which would cause a kernel panic. It usually only occured when rebooting from another OS. I have a Dell Precision 650 dual xeon 2.0 ghz with HTT disabled. Performance seems a tad bit better since upgrading to the stable version. I'm in the process of building 5.4 release now.
I'd be interested to hear people's recent experiences with Dual Xeons under load with SMP on and HTT off.
A while back there were stability problems with Dual Xeon machines. I've got one of these in production with SMP turned off for the time being. I figure at some point things are stable enough to enable the extra processor safely, but I don't have a spare machine for testing safely.
I gather there are still problems with Dual Xeon with both SMP and HTT turned on, but that turning HTT off helps. So the question is how stable is that configuration?
Andrew McNaughton
On a server, its probably good to have HTT off due to the recent security advisory. Its off on my workstation simply because it seemed to slow down the machine in FreeBSD, Linux and Windows.
_______________________________________________
[email protected] mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-smp
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
