atom based servers
I see supermicro and potentially others have atom servers available, anyone tried these on freebsd with success? Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
RE: atom based servers
-Original Message- >From: Brian Whalen >Sent: Thu 12/11/2009 9:26 AM > >I see supermicro and potentially others have atom servers available, >anyone tried these on freebsd with success? > >Brian Hi Brian Indeed, I have a FreeBSD 8.0RC1 system running as my primary time server for the home network. Since it's an Atom 330, it fully supports 64-bit mode (an opportunity I have grasped with both hands). The board I happen to be using is an Intel DG945GCLF2 - a clone board with just 1 DIMM slot and two SATA ports. Everything I need to have supported Just Worked out of the box. The server itself is running at a very low load level: timeserver ~ 15> uptime 1:00PM up 6 days, 12:38, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 I can provide the output of most any other commands if you'd like to see anything specific. I rather suspect that the Supermicro and other server-class Atoms will still be using the Intel 945 or similar chipsets. Dave. -- David Rawling PD Consulting And Security Email: d...@pdconsec.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: atom based servers
David Rawling wrote: Hi Brian Indeed, I have a FreeBSD 8.0RC1 system running as my primary time server for the home network. Since it's an Atom 330, it fully supports 64-bit mode (an opportunity I have grasped with both hands). I have one of the Acer ION gadgets running at home and that also uses the Atom 330. I cannot find any nice way to reduce the power consumption though as the 330 doesn't seem to support speedstep and my cpu is always running at 68C. Does your board provide any power control opportunity? The board I happen to be using is an Intel DG945GCLF2 - a clone board with just 1 DIMM slot and two SATA ports. Everything I need to have supported Just Worked out of the box. . I can provide the output of most any other commands if you'd like to see anything specific. I rather suspect that the Supermicro and other server-class Atoms will still be using the Intel 945 or similar chipsets. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
RE: atom based servers
Robin Becker opined: ... >I have one of the Acer ION gadgets running at home and that also uses the Atom >330. I cannot find any nice way to reduce the power consumption though as the >330 doesn't seem to support speedstep and my cpu is always running at 68C. Does >your board provide any power control opportunity? sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq reports that my CPU is running at 202 or 404MHz generally: timeserver ~ 127# sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq dev.cpu.0.freq: 404 timeserver ~ 128# sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 1618/-1 1415/-1 1213/-1 1011/-1 809/-1 606/-1 404/-1 202/-1 I notice the only C states are C0 and C1, and that it's generally running in C1: timeserver ~ 136# sysctl dev.cpu.0 dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu dev.cpu.0.%location: handle=\_PR_.CPU0 dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0 dev.cpu.0.%parent: acpi0 dev.cpu.0.freq: 202 dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 1618/-1 1415/-1 1213/-1 1011/-1 809/-1 606/-1 404/-1 202/-1 dev.cpu.0.cx_supported: C1/0 dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest: C1 dev.cpu.0.cx_usage: 100.00% last 500us lmmon is not particularly helpful for anything on this board, but that could be because I'm using the Generic kernel and /dev/smb0 is not present: timeserver ~ 134# lmmon -i Motherboard Temp Voltages 255C / 491F / 528KVcore1: +3.984V Vcore2: +3.984V Fan Speeds + 3.3V: +3.984V + 5.0V: +6.654V 1:0 rpm+12.0V: +15.938V 2:0 rpm-12.0V: -15.938V 3:0 rpm- 5.0V: -6.654V Do you have any other suggestions of tools I could use to help answer your question? Perhaps the lack of other C states is causing the excess power consumption (or perhaps your system is more heavily loaded)? I'm assuming for the sake of simplicity that powerd is already enabled (I'm running with powerd_flags="-i 85 -r 60 -p 100")? Dave. -- David Rawling PD Consulting And Security Email: d...@pdconsec.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: atom based servers
Curious, how did you get it installed? My motherboard doesn't have an IDE port (so, no IDE CD-ROM) and don't think booting from USB-CDROM is supported Booting from USB Flash drive works? David Rawling wrote: -Original Message- From: Brian Whalen Sent: Thu 12/11/2009 9:26 AM I see supermicro and potentially others have atom servers available, anyone tried these on freebsd with success? Brian Hi Brian Indeed, I have a FreeBSD 8.0RC1 system running as my primary time server for the home network. Since it's an Atom 330, it fully supports 64-bit mode (an opportunity I have grasped with both hands). The board I happen to be using is an Intel DG945GCLF2 - a clone board with just 1 DIMM slot and two SATA ports. Everything I need to have supported Just Worked out of the box. The server itself is running at a very low load level: timeserver ~ 15> uptime 1:00PM up 6 days, 12:38, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 I can provide the output of most any other commands if you'd like to see anything specific. I rather suspect that the Supermicro and other server-class Atoms will still be using the Intel 945 or similar chipsets. Dave. -- David Rawling PD Consulting And Security Email: d...@pdconsec.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
RE: atom based servers
Jack Barnett opined: >Curious, how did you get it installed? I used the AMD64 MemStick image on a Corsair 2GB key. It's one I had lying around and that wasn't 8x larger than the image. >My motherboard doesn't have an IDE port (so, no IDE CD-ROM) and don't >think booting from USB-CDROM is supported > >Booting from USB Flash drive works? It did for me - I never had an intention of putting an optical drive in that server (none of my servers have opticals any more). Nothing strange in the BIOS - just the normal boot options. IME these things are finally getting to the "just works" stage. Thankfully! Dave. -- David Rawling PD Consulting And Security Email: d...@pdconsec.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
