On Monday 16 May 2005 02:18 am, Andrew McNaughton wrote: > On Mon, 16 May 2005, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Andrew McNaughton wrote: > >> 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 > > > > Do you refere to the scheduler? > > > > Use the old BSD scheduler and you should be fine. > > I'm not familiar with the scheduler options. Nothing changed from GENERIC > there. > > When I comissioned the machine in February I ran RELENG_5_3 with the SMP > kernel config as supplied. ie generic with the SMP option turned on. No > problems surfaced during setup, but when the box went live, it was having > kernel panics about every couple of hours. Going back to the GENERIC > kernel solved the problem.
This problem was fixed in 5.4 and was also fixed in the RELENG_5_3 branch in CVS on January 25th. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-smp To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
