And Kris Kennaway did write:
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 05:15:55PM +0100, Achim Patzner wrote:
Am 07.11.2005 um 16:27 schrieb Ollivier Robert:
[...]
I remember someone writing that the intermediate state of -CURRENT
while removing the giant lock around the kernel wasn't viable with
more than four CPUs as it would completely deadlock from time to
time. I guess we're a bit further down the road...
That certainly seems to be the case. You want to use FreeBSD 6.0,
which has excellent performance and stability on SMP in my testing,
even with 14 CPUs. FreeBSD 5.4 is definitely not up to it, since VFS
is under Giant.
Well I'm going to take the plunge and bring an HP Netserver LT 6000 with
6 CPUs up from 5.4-STABLE to 6.
Are there any obvious additions or subtractions from a 5.x kernel
configuration file? Is ADAPTIVE_GIANT now obsolete?
Thanks for the tips,
David
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