FreeBSD for intel(r) Xeon(r) Processor X5560

2010-07-22 Thread Debarshi Chakravarti
Hi, I am interested in having a production grade BIND9 implementation on FreeBSD. My hardware is as below Intel(r) Xeon(r) Processor X5560 I learned from the site that FreeBSD for ia64 is still in TIER2. Can you please advise me on the below. 1. When it will be moved to TIER1. 2

Re: FreeBSD for intel(r) Xeon(r) Processor X5560

2010-07-22 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Intel(r) Xeon(r) Processor X5560 I learned from the site that FreeBSD for ia64 is still in TIER2. Can you please advise me on the below. For Intel Xeon, I think you want the amd64 branch. ia64 would be for Ithanium. Bests, Olivier

Re: FreeBSD for intel(r) Xeon(r) Processor X5560

2010-07-22 Thread krad
On 22 July 2010 10:17, Olivier Nicole olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote: Hi, Intel(r) Xeon(r) Processor X5560 I learned from the site that FreeBSD for ia64 is still in TIER2. Can you please advise me on the below. For Intel Xeon, I think you want the amd64 branch. ia64 would

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 amd64 on Nehelem Xeon?

2010-01-23 Thread Ivan Voras
On 23 January 2010 01:14, Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote: There probably are some. If you are only interested in FreeBSD ports, you can make a list of which ports you need and then inspect their Makefiles to see if there's a flag disabling them on the amd64 architecture. OK thanks.  

FreeBSD 8.0 amd64 on Nehelem Xeon?

2010-01-22 Thread Nerius Landys
I'm in the process of purchasing a small Nehelem-based server (Xeon L5506 CPU to be exact). I will be installing some flavor of FreeBSD 8.0 (either i386 32 bit or amd64 64 bit, to be exact). I have no immediate need for a 64 bit server, as none of the processes that I will be running

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 amd64 on Nehelem Xeon?

2010-01-22 Thread Ivan Voras
Nerius Landys wrote: I'm in the process of purchasing a small Nehelem-based server (Xeon L5506 CPU to be exact). I will be installing some flavor of FreeBSD 8.0 (either i386 32 bit or amd64 64 bit, to be exact). I have no immediate need for a 64 bit server, as none of the processes that I

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 amd64 on Nehelem Xeon?

2010-01-22 Thread Nerius Landys
There probably are some. If you are only interested in FreeBSD ports, you can make a list of which ports you need and then inspect their Makefiles to see if there's a flag disabling them on the amd64 architecture. OK thanks. Could you give me an example of a port that is disabled on 64 bit

OT: XEON W3550?

2009-06-09 Thread O. Hartmann
Maybe some of you have already heard about Intels product change and early EOL of various newly introduced Core-i7 CPUs like i7-940 and i7-965. I was wondering if Intel isn't also changing XEON products to adjust clock speed and replace XEON W3540 with XEON W3550 and XEON W3570 with, say, XEON

Re: IBM x345 Dual 2.8Ghz Xeon poor performance

2009-06-02 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 19:54:20 +0100 Chris Nicholls wrote: I recently aquired and IBM eServer x345, which is taking up to 12 hours to build a kernel! I've spent quite a bit of spare time trawling archives etc for any hints to the reason why. I've got mothing similar with my Intel server. Then

Re: IBM x345 Dual 2.8Ghz Xeon poor performance

2009-06-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
to build a kernel! I've spent quite a bit of spare time trawling archives etc for any hints to the reason why. I've got mothing similar with my Intel server. Then it was a memory bank to blame. The server has been fine after replacing that bank. with no ECC machine it would simply crash. With

Re: IBM x345 Dual 2.8Ghz Xeon poor performance

2009-06-02 Thread Chris Nicholls
On Monday, 1 June 2009 at K:49:59 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I recently aquired and IBM eServer x345, which is taking up to 12 hours to build a kernel! sorry if it's stupod question but do you have softupdates enabled? Yeah, enabled I've spent quite a bit of spare time trawling

Re: IBM x345 Dual 2.8Ghz Xeon poor performance

2009-06-02 Thread Chris Nicholls
On Tuesday, 2 June 2009 at K:54:43 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: to build a kernel! I've spent quite a bit of spare time trawling archives etc for any hints to the reason why. I've got mothing similar with my Intel server. Then it was a memory bank to blame. The server has been fine after

Re: IBM x345 Dual 2.8Ghz Xeon poor performance

2009-06-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
constantly doing ECC that's why it was damn slow. anyway - can hardware give any info for OS about how often ECC corrects errors? This feels like the right track, I'll run memtest86 on it later tonight. if i'm right memtest86 will not detect anything as too - all errors get corrected. for

IBM x345 Dual 2.8Ghz Xeon poor performance

2009-06-01 Thread Chris Nicholls
) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (2793.92-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf29 Stepping = 9 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE Features2=0x4400CNXT-ID,xTPR Instruction TLB: 4 KB, 2

Re: IBM x345 Dual 2.8Ghz Xeon poor performance

2009-06-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I recently aquired and IBM eServer x345, which is taking up to 12 hours to build a kernel! sorry if it's stupod question but do you have softupdates enabled? I've spent quite a bit of spare time trawling archives etc for any hints to the reason why. Initally I thought it was the disks

Re: Xeon Quad with 9 GB RAM - only 4 GB detected

2009-04-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
just for sure - after installation is still 4GB detected (with generic kernel) or 9? On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Matej Šerc wrote: Hi all, I am just trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 amd64 distro on the HP ML 150 G5 server and when booting, BIOS detects 9 GB of RAM, but when starting to install the

Re: Xeon Quad with 9 GB RAM - only 4 GB detected

2009-04-01 Thread Matej Šerc
Hello, I have finished the installation and yes, the entire amount is detected. Is this normal behaveour (why does it happen?) Thanks, Matej On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: just for sure - after installation is still 4GB detected (with

Re: Xeon Quad with 9 GB RAM - only 4 GB detected

2009-04-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have finished the installation and yes, the entire amount is detected. Is this normal behaveour (why does it happen?) i'm not sure if install kernel is actually /i386 version. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Xeon Quad with 9 GB RAM - only 4 GB detected

2009-04-01 Thread Oliver Fromme
Wojciech Puchar wrote: I have finished the installation and yes, the entire amount is detected. Is this normal behaveour (why does it happen?) i'm not sure if install kernel is actually /i386 version. It must be an amd64 kernel, otherwise it would not be usable for fixit things.

Xeon Quad with 9 GB RAM - only 4 GB detected

2009-03-31 Thread Matej Šerc
Hi all, I am just trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 amd64 distro on the HP ML 150 G5 server and when booting, BIOS detects 9 GB of RAM, but when starting to install the system it is displayed that only 4 GBs are detected. Also the default swap partition size is 4 GB ... What would be the needed steps

FreeBSD on Intel Xeon processor 5160

2009-02-22 Thread Metias Adel
Dear Sir, I have IBM x3550 server with Intel Xeon (Dual-Core) processors 5160 @ 3.0 GHz. I need to install FreeBSD 7.0 but I do not know which type of FreeBSD I have to use to take the best performance of the EM64T and Hyperthreading Technologies. Thank you in advance. Best regards, Metias

Re: FreeBSD on Intel Xeon processor 5160

2009-02-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 03:41:23PM +0200, Metias Adel wrote: I have IBM x3550 server with Intel Xeon (Dual-Core) processors 5160 @ 3.0 GHz. I need to install FreeBSD 7.0 but I do not know which type of FreeBSD I have to use to take the best performance of the EM64T and Hyperthreading

Re: FreeBSD on Intel Xeon processor 5160

2009-02-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Dear Sir, I have IBM x3550 server with Intel Xeon (Dual-Core) processors 5160 @ 3.0 GHz. I need to install FreeBSD 7.0 but I do not know which type of FreeBSD I have to use to take the best performance of the EM64T and Hyperthreading Technologies. Thank you in advance. EM64T == amd64 so

Re: FreeBSD on Intel Xeon processor 5160

2009-02-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
You should probably use the amd64 version of you want to use more than 4GB of memory. AND IF YOU DO NOT. it's normal to use natural architecture, not backward compatibility. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Xeon Quad Core (Was: Server Freezing Solid)

2008-11-25 Thread Ross Cameron
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Chris Maness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another thought. Would a Quad Core chip help with compiling applications -- or would it be the same as a dual core or single core chip running at the same clock speed because the compiler is running single thread? Would

Re: Xeon Quad Core (Was: Server Freezing Solid)

2008-11-25 Thread Ross Cameron
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:11 AM, Josh Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always thought AMD was Intel compatible. In this case, it's the reverse. Intel's EM64T extensions are compatible with AMD's X86-64. Also don't forget that SSE5 instruction set for x86 was entirely designed by AMD.

Xeon Quad Core (Was: Server Freezing Solid)

2008-11-24 Thread Chris Maness
Since a Xeon Quad Core is a 64bit processor, would it work ok with FreeBSD? Or would the adm64 release be better for that chip? Thanks, Chris Maness ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Xeon Quad Core (Was: Server Freezing Solid)

2008-11-24 Thread Valentin Bud
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Chris Maness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since a Xeon Quad Core is a 64bit processor, would it work ok with FreeBSD? Or would the adm64 release be better for that chip? Hello Chris, I had a server with an Intel Xeon Quad Core CPU that was running FBSD 7.0 since

Re: Xeon Quad Core (Was: Server Freezing Solid)

2008-11-24 Thread Ott Köstner
Chris Maness wrote: Since a Xeon Quad Core is a 64bit processor, would it work ok with FreeBSD? Or would the adm64 release be better for that chip? I would recommend using amd64 FreeBSD port in this case. Some applications are significantly faster in 64 bit mode than in 32 bit mode. Personally

Re: Xeon Quad Core (Was: Server Freezing Solid)

2008-11-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Since a Xeon Quad Core is a 64bit processor, would it work ok with FreeBSD? Or would the adm64 release be better for that chip? don't be suggested by amd in port name. it's for AMD64-compatible processor, for example your xeon ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Xeon Quad Core (Was: Server Freezing Solid)

2008-11-24 Thread Chris Maness
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Since a Xeon Quad Core is a 64bit processor, would it work ok with FreeBSD? Or would the adm64 release be better for that chip? don't be suggested by amd in port name. it's for AMD64-compatible processor, for example your xeon Sorry, I wasn't very clear. I am currently

Re: Xeon Quad Core (Was: Server Freezing Solid)

2008-11-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:37:25AM -0800, Chris Maness wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: Since a Xeon Quad Core is a 64bit processor, would it work ok with FreeBSD? Or would the adm64 release be better for that chip? don't be suggested by amd in port name. it's for AMD64-compatible

Re: Xeon Quad Core (Was: Server Freezing Solid)

2008-11-24 Thread Josh Carroll
seemed to indicate that the i386 release would run just fine on a quad core chip. Yes, i386 will run just fine on a 64-bit Xeon. And no, there isn't an easier (well, one could argue it's easy, but tedious) way to convert to an amd64 release. Would there be a major performance gain with amd64 over

Re: Xeon Quad Core (Was: Server Freezing Solid)

2008-11-24 Thread Chris Maness
Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:37:25AM -0800, Chris Maness wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: Since a Xeon Quad Core is a 64bit processor, would it work ok with FreeBSD? Or would the adm64 release be better for that chip? don't be suggested by amd in port name. it's

Re: Xeon Quad Core (Was: Server Freezing Solid)

2008-11-24 Thread Chris Maness
Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:37:25AM -0800, Chris Maness wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: Since a Xeon Quad Core is a 64bit processor, would it work ok with FreeBSD? Or would the adm64 release be better for that chip? don't be suggested by amd in port name. it's

Re: Xeon Quad Core (Was: Server Freezing Solid)

2008-11-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:49:37PM -0800, Chris Maness wrote: Would there be a major performance gain with amd64 over that of the i386 build on a Xeon Quad Core? It will depend on your workload. If your machines were strapped fo address space on i386, switching to amd64

Re: Xeon Quad Core (Was: Server Freezing Solid)

2008-11-24 Thread Josh Carroll
I always thought AMD was Intel compatible. In this case, it's the reverse. Intel's EM64T extensions are compatible with AMD's X86-64. Josh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-12 Thread DAve
DAve wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: It might be reasonable to try hyperthreading enabled, as your type of load might be improved by it on Funny that, enabling hyperthreading immediately dropped my load by half, I see CPU0, CPU1, CPU2, CPU3 now in top. I also see my CPU load reporting

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 12, 2008, at 2:27 PM, DAve wrote: On a related note, I met Chuck back in 1999 in Seattle at a SeaFug meeting. I doubt he remembers me but he and John Polstra coached me through changing from a Mac Admin to a BSD admin. I've read Chuck's posts on multiple maillists that we both have,

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
and what most unix users do. It is what a lot of unix users have done historically, but now that there is and still most do. It's not a Unix way versus Other OS Way thing -- its a response to the change in direction hardware development has taken over the past several years. Chip on

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
Wojciech Puchar wrote: It depends very much on the application load you have to support and the sort of hardware you have available. For the sort of multicore chips that are all the rage nowadays, I'd go with 7.0 every time, even running single threaded applications. did you actually made

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
but just run 100 different things and check how responsive machine is. My experience is of dealing with servers where each machine typically has a small number of important applications -- frequently only /one/ application so why you need unix at all? :) I can't speak to the model of

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
Wojciech Puchar wrote: but just run 100 different things and check how responsive machine is. My experience is of dealing with servers where each machine typically has a small number of important applications -- frequently only /one/ application so why you need unix at all? :) At the risk

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
At the risk of belabouring the obvious: i) I like the price. Free. no system is free too ;) iii) I like the efficiency of the OS -- you get that much more performance out of every machine it's like having additional servers for free. single app writen for bare hardware would be the

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-10 Thread Mel
On Saturday 10 May 2008 09:10:37 Wojciech Puchar wrote: and what most unix users do. It is what a lot of unix users have done historically, but now that there is and still most do. It's not a Unix way versus Other OS Way thing -- its a response to the change in direction hardware

FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-09 Thread DAve
very hard, CPU load never shows above 50% idle. I found one thread which mentions that as an issue and offers a patch. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2007-February/022526.html Currently I am running the SMP-GENERIC kernel and sysctl shows the following. hw.model: Intel(R) Xeon

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
DAve wrote: Good morning. I recently upgraded our two email gateways from 4.8 to 6.2. The required software was upgraded as well which consists of MailScanner and Sendmail. Both had been keep up to date so it was not a jump in required resources. The issue I am seeing is that my server

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
that as an issue and offers a patch. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2007-February/022526.html Currently I am running the SMP-GENERIC kernel and sysctl shows the following. hw.model: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: 0 machdep.hyperthreading_allowed: 0

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
software was upgraded as well which consists of MailScanner and Sendmail. Both had been keep up to date so it was not a jump in required resources. The issue I am seeing is that my server load, under the same traffic load, has increased 4 times or more. Where previously we saw a high load on

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
FreeBSD 6.2 is I believe slower than 4.11 for single processor systems and processes which pretty much run single threaded -- ie. exactly what you're trying to run. This would cause exactly the sort of symptoms you're seeing. and what most unix users do. Try 7.0 instead -- it has all of the

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 9, 2008, at 11:30 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Try 7.0 instead -- it has all of the speed at multi-threaded, multi- core type stuff but has also regained the sort of performance levels you could so 4.11 is fastest? For single-processor systems, FreeBSD 4.11 does very well at a lot of

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-09 Thread DAve
Wojciech Puchar wrote: software was upgraded as well which consists of MailScanner and Sendmail. Both had been keep up to date so it was not a jump in required resources. The issue I am seeing is that my server load, under the same traffic load, has increased 4 times or more. Where

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-09 Thread DAve
Wojciech Puchar wrote: FreeBSD 6.2 is I believe slower than 4.11 for single processor systems and processes which pretty much run single threaded -- ie. exactly what you're trying to run. This would cause exactly the sort of symptoms you're seeing. and what most unix users do. Try 7.0

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-09 Thread DAve
Chuck Swiger wrote: On May 9, 2008, at 11:30 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Try 7.0 instead -- it has all of the speed at multi-threaded, multi-core type stuff but has also regained the sort of performance levels you could so 4.11 is fastest? For single-processor systems, FreeBSD 4.11 does

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 9, 2008, at 11:55 AM, DAve wrote: For single-processor systems, FreeBSD 4.11 does very well at a lot of tasks. However, Dave apparently has a 4-CPU system (~8 threads if he enabled hyperthreading), and for real SMP hardware, more recent versions of FreeBSD generally perform better

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-09 Thread DAve
Chuck Swiger wrote: On May 9, 2008, at 11:55 AM, DAve wrote: For single-processor systems, FreeBSD 4.11 does very well at a lot of tasks. However, Dave apparently has a 4-CPU system (~8 threads if he enabled hyperthreading), and for real SMP hardware, more recent versions of FreeBSD

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-09 Thread DAve
that as an issue and offers a patch. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2007-February/022526.html Currently I am running the SMP-GENERIC kernel and sysctl shows the following. hw.model: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: 0 machdep.hyperthreading_allowed: 0

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
and 2.4GHz Xeon and assumed the OP was using 2004-era hardware. The whole Quad Core thing just didn't register. and what most unix users do. It is what a lot of unix users have done historically, but now that there is good support coming through for highly threaded, parallelized applications

make.conf CPUTYPE Xeon Conroe?

2008-03-05 Thread Nerius Landys
I'm running FreeBSD 7.0 on a server with an Intel Xeon Dual-Core 3060 Conroe (2.4GHz) CPU. I'm wondering what I should set CPUTYPE to in my /etc/make.conf. The file /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf has this information: # (Intel CPUs)core2 core nocona pentium4m pentium4 prescott

Re: make.conf CPUTYPE Xeon Conroe?

2008-03-05 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Wednesday 05 March 2008 11:55:48 am Nerius Landys wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 7.0 on a server with an Intel Xeon Dual-Core 3060 Conroe (2.4GHz) CPU. I'm wondering what I should set CPUTYPE to in my /etc/make.conf. The file /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf has this information

Re: make.conf CPUTYPE Xeon Conroe?

2008-03-05 Thread Robert Huff
Josh Paetzel writes: As a general rule, setting a CPUTYPE is something you should try to avoid...there's all sorts of breakage it can cause for very little gain. Do you have examples? I ask because I've had CPUTYPE? = p4 on this machine for five years - dozens of buildworlds and

Re: make.conf CPUTYPE Xeon Conroe?

2008-03-05 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:55:48AM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 7.0 on a server with an Intel Xeon Dual-Core 3060 Conroe (2.4GHz) CPU. I'm wondering what I should set CPUTYPE to in my /etc/make.conf. The file /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf has this information

Re: make.conf CPUTYPE Xeon Conroe?

2008-03-05 Thread David Alanis
]: On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:55:48AM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 7.0 on a server with an Intel Xeon Dual-Core 3060 Conroe (2.4GHz) CPU. I'm wondering what I should set CPUTYPE to in my /etc/make.conf. The file /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf has this information

Which version with a Xeon X3210

2007-11-04 Thread Chris Hastie
I've just ordered a new server based on the Intel Xeon X3210. This is a quad core processor supporting the Intel 64 (formerly known as Intel® EM64T, according to the flyer) instruction set. I plan to install FreeBSD 6.2 on it, but I'm not clear whether I should be using the AMD64 version

Re: Which version with a Xeon X3210

2007-11-04 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 10:31:33AM +, Chris Hastie wrote: I've just ordered a new server based on the Intel Xeon X3210. This is a quad core processor supporting the Intel 64 (formerly known as Intel® EM64T, according to the flyer) instruction set. I plan to install FreeBSD 6.2

Re: Which version with a Xeon X3210

2007-11-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 10:31:33AM +, Chris Hastie wrote: I've just ordered a new server based on the Intel Xeon X3210. This is a quad core processor supporting the Intel 64 (formerly known as Intel® EM64T, according to the flyer) instruction set. I plan to install FreeBSD 6.2

Question about use CPU Intel Xeon 5150 with FreeBSD

2007-06-13 Thread Alexander Gudimov
Hello, questions. Please help me. What version of FreeBSD will prefer use on system with CPU Intel Xeon 5150 ? Main problem with choice: i386 or amd64 platforms. -- With best regards, Alexander mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Question about use CPU Intel Xeon 5150 with FreeBSD

2007-06-13 Thread Александр Гудимов
Hello, questions. -- With best regards, Alexander mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Question about use CPU Intel Xeon 5150 with FreeBSD

2007-06-13 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
If you are looking for performance, and amazing speed go for 7.0 AMD64 with SCHED_ULE. On 6/13/07, Alexander Gudimov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, questions. Please help me. What version of FreeBSD will prefer use on system with CPU Intel Xeon 5150 ? Main problem with choice: i386 or amd64

Re: Question about use CPU Intel Xeon 5150 with FreeBSD

2007-06-13 Thread RW
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:45:39 +0300 Alexander Gudimov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, questions. Please help me. What version of FreeBSD will prefer use on system with CPU Intel Xeon 5150 ? Main problem with choice: i386 or amd64 platforms. If it's for a server, or you have a compelling

Re: Question about use CPU Intel Xeon 5150 with FreeBSD

2007-06-13 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Am Mittwoch, den 13.06.2007, 14:45 +0300 schrieb Alexander Gudimov: Hello, questions. Please help me. What version of FreeBSD will prefer use on system with CPU Intel Xeon 5150 ? Main problem with choice: i386 or amd64 platforms. amd64 has integrated EMT 64 support for Xeons and Dual/Quad

Support Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5310 CPU

2007-05-09 Thread Ivan Carey
Hi, Does FreeBSD 6.2 support Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5310 CPU and an Intel Xeon 5320 quad core CPU Regards, Ivan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Support Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5310 CPU

2007-05-09 Thread Josh Paetzel
Ivan Carey wrote: Hi, Does FreeBSD 6.2 support Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5310 CPU and an Intel Xeon 5320 quad core CPU Regards, Ivan Yes. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

freeBSD installation on intel xeon server SR2500ALBRP model

2007-01-18 Thread Naveed Iqbal Farooqi
Hello, Plaese can u inform me that FreeBSD is compatible over intel xeon server with model no SR2500ALBRP. Thanks Naveeed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

dual duo core xeon

2007-01-15 Thread kalin mintchev
hi all.. can i run freebsd 6.* on a dual duo core xeon machine using full cpu capacity? does freebsd run on duo core Intels - i know it does on amds... thanks... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: dual duo core xeon

2007-01-15 Thread applecom
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:58:11 +0500, kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can i run freebsd 6.* on a dual duo core xeon machine using full cpu capacity? does freebsd run on duo core Intels - i know it does on amds... From FAQ for FreeBSD 4.X, 5.X, and 6.X: 4.2.2. Does FreeBSD support

Re: Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits ) egg and chicken problem ...

2006-12-13 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On Friday, 2006, December 8 at 3:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Bonnet) wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: Vince wrote: Vince wrote: Sorry lacking coffeee this morning I mean of course /pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/6.2 /me goes back to sleep now. Vince Vince, OK

Re: Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits )

2006-12-08 Thread Frank Bonnet
Vince wrote: Vince wrote: Sorry lacking coffeee this morning I mean of course /pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/6.2 /me goes back to sleep now. Vince Vince, OK i'm going to have a try with it I'll let you know how it worked. -- Kind Regards Frank Bonnet

Re: Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits )

2006-12-08 Thread Frank Bonnet
Frank Bonnet wrote: Vince wrote: Vince wrote: Sorry lacking coffeee this morning I mean of course /pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/6.2 /me goes back to sleep now. Vince Vince, OK i'm going to have a try with it I'll let you know how it worked. Well :-( it does not work it

Re: Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits ) egg and chicken problem ...

2006-12-08 Thread Frank Bonnet
Frank Bonnet wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: Vince wrote: Vince wrote: Sorry lacking coffeee this morning I mean of course /pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/6.2 /me goes back to sleep now. Vince Vince, OK i'm going to have a try with it I'll let you know how it worked. Well :-( it

Re: Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits )

2006-12-07 Thread Frank Bonnet
Peter A. Giessel wrote: It depends on what you are going to do with it. This question has been asked many times on this e-mail list, so you might want to start by searching the archives. If you are running desktop applications on it (such as X11), you might be better off running the i386

Re: Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits )

2006-12-07 Thread Vince
Frank Bonnet wrote: Peter A. Giessel wrote: It depends on what you are going to do with it. This question has been asked many times on this e-mail list, so you might want to start by searching the archives. If you are running desktop applications on it (such as X11), you might be better

Re: Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits )

2006-12-07 Thread Vince
Vince wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: Peter A. Giessel wrote: It depends on what you are going to do with it. This question has been asked many times on this e-mail list, so you might want to start by searching the archives. If you are running desktop applications on it (such as X11), you

Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits )

2006-12-06 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I just receive a new IBM X3650 server bi-proc XEON and I wonder which version of FreeBSD to use with it I386 or AMD64 ? Of course it is a 64 bits machine infos, links welcome thanks -- Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits )

2006-12-06 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 2006/12/06 0:36, Frank Bonnet seems to have typed: Hello I just receive a new IBM X3650 server bi-proc XEON and I wonder which version of FreeBSD to use with it I386 or AMD64 ? Of course it is a 64 bits machine infos, links welcome thanks It depends on what you are going to do

Re: Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits )

2006-12-06 Thread Josh Carroll
I just receive a new IBM X3650 server bi-proc XEON and I wonder which version of FreeBSD to use with it I386 or AMD64 ? Do you have more than 4GB of RAM? If not, I'd recommend sticking with i386. There are very few things that will actually run any faster with the AMD64 version (notably, media

amd64 build on xeon

2006-11-02 Thread lenny
Looking around in /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/, I only see one cpu option - HAMMER. I found some references to CPUTYPE=nocona for make.conf, but what cpu option do I use for Intel 86x64 platform for kernel builds ? thank you all. ___

Anyone with Xeon 5100s yet?

2006-07-20 Thread Nikolas Britton
Anyone have feedback on the new Xeons and the 5000p/v/x chipsets? Is Xen working with VT (Vanderpool)? SSE4 support?, chipset funkyness? fast? stable? anything? I'm tired of waiting for Socket F Opterons w/Pacifica. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/

6-STABLE on 6 Gb RAM 2 x Xeon 3.0 HTT GDT RAID5 - how?

2006-07-01 Thread ASTESIN
Dear FreeBSD gurus, can anyone point me at a good FM where process of _proper_ setting up FreeBSD 6-STABLE on 6 Gb RAM machine w/ 2 x Xeon CPU is described? It also has ICP (former GDT) RAID controller w/RAID-5 configuration (iir0 device). Purpose: just Apache + mod_perl + MySQL 5.x application

Re: Reboot hangs on xeon server

2006-04-12 Thread Christopher McGee
Andy Reitz wrote: On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Christopher McGee wrote: The server I have is using an Intel SE7501CW2 server board with 1 Xeon 2.0Ghz processor. It's got a Mylex AcceleRAID 170 card with 6 - 36GB scsi drives. When I reboot the machine, via ctrl-alt-del, or typing reboot, it syncs

Reboot hangs on xeon server

2006-04-11 Thread Christopher McGee
The server I have is using an Intel SE7501CW2 server board with 1 Xeon 2.0Ghz processor. It's got a Mylex AcceleRAID 170 card with 6 - 36GB scsi drives. When I reboot the machine, via ctrl-alt-del, or typing reboot, it syncs disks, then gives the messages: All buffers synced. Uptime: ##m##s

Re: Reboot hangs on xeon server

2006-04-11 Thread Andy Reitz
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Christopher McGee wrote: The server I have is using an Intel SE7501CW2 server board with 1 Xeon 2.0Ghz processor. It's got a Mylex AcceleRAID 170 card with 6 - 36GB scsi drives. When I reboot the machine, via ctrl-alt-del, or typing reboot, it syncs disks, then gives

Re: Fw: Low perf of i386 6.0 on dell poweredge 1850 bi-Xeon 2.8ghzDualCore

2006-03-27 Thread Eric
performance. To resume : when doing diskinfo -v -t amrd0 with freebsd 6.0 or 5.4 on - bi-xeon 3Ghz and scsi 15.000t hdd on perc4di Raid1 card I have slower results than on - simple AMD 2800+ with ide discs. I have same server with freebsd 4.11 and perfs are 2 or three time better. If it may

Re: Fw: Low perf of i386 6.0 on dell poweredge 1850 bi-Xeon 2.8ghzDualCore

2006-03-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 09:14:12PM +0200, Eric wrote: Hi, Still my performance problem ( for resume mysql three time slower on freebsd 6.0 than 4.11). In fact I do new test on several server and several freebsd release and now be quiet sure that problem come from amr driver. I install

Dual xeon

2006-03-27 Thread Aguiar Magalhaes
Hi list, We´ve received a xeon dual processor machine, Intel motherboard... What´s the best versionplatform for it ?? i386, ia64 ?? Thanks, Aguiar ___ Yahoo! Acesso Grátis - Internet rápida e grátis. Instale o discador

Re: Dual xeon

2006-03-27 Thread Ian Lord
At 17:35 2006-03-27, Aguiar Magalhaes wrote: Hi list, We´ve received a xeon dual processor machine, Intel motherboard... What´s the best versionplatform for it ?? i386, ia64 ?? Hi, first of all, from what I know ia64 won't work... That release is for the itanium kinda cpus... You have

Re: Dual xeon

2006-03-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 05:42:21PM -0500, Ian Lord wrote: If you are planning on installing precompiled binairies you'll find that there is no support nowhere for the amd64 version This is completely false. Kris pgp90n4eT7UkV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Dual xeon

2006-03-27 Thread Ian Lord
At 17:49 2006-03-27, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 05:42:21PM -0500, Ian Lord wrote: If you are planning on installing precompiled binairies you'll find that there is no support nowhere for the amd64 version This is completely false. Sorry I wasn't clear enough... In the

Re: Dual xeon

2006-03-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 05:52:04PM -0500, Ian Lord wrote: At 17:49 2006-03-27, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 05:42:21PM -0500, Ian Lord wrote: If you are planning on installing precompiled binairies you'll find that there is no support nowhere for the amd64 version This

Low perf of i386 6.0 on dell poweredge 1850 bi-Xeon 2.8ghzDualCore

2006-03-16 Thread Eric
Still me ;=) I do new test and have this information to add : Freebsd 6.0 with bi-xeon dual core and smp kernel is two time more slower than Freebsd 4.11 with simple bi-xeon If I configure freebsd 6.0 kernel without smp it's 1.5 faster than with. Here is a resume : The test is simple mysql

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