From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Oct 17 9:50:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from kira.epconline.net (kira.epconline.net [207.206.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52B5137B405 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:50:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from isp4 (betterguard.epconline.net [207.206.185.193]) by kira.epconline.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with SMTP id f9HGoHL31147 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:50:17 -0500 (CDT) Reply-To: From: "Chuck Rock" To: Subject: Compaq 1850R and 4.3 SMP problem? I think.... Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:51:43 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have a strange one.. I'm running a Compaq Proliant 1850R with an additional Intel 10/100 network card. Everything else in the machine is Compaq and came with the unit. I got the SMP kernel compiled and working with IPFW and TCP Restrict changes added. Problem...... Every week or so, the Intel card stops working. I get timeout erros on the screen, and the interface just quits working all together. One time I was actually able to ping out the on-board Thunderlan interface, then it quit too. Since then, every time one card is down, they are both down. I even scaled back the kernel to just SMP, no extra tweaks, and it still does this. Does anyone have any ideas or directions I could go to get FreeBSD SMP on this reliably. I had to tweak the BIOS to get SMP working in the first place, I had to change it to Unixware or something so it would allow the SMP functions in the kernel to work. Could that have something to do with this? Thanks, Chuck Rock To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Oct 18 20: 7:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from eden.rutgers.edu (er4.rutgers.edu [165.230.180.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B84937B401 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 20:07:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by eden.rutgers.edu (Postfix, from userid 18274) id 0D91C15EC5; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 23:07:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 23:07:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Nathan Langford X-Sender: nathanl@er4.rutgers.edu To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: recommendation Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm getting a hand-me-down pentiumII dual processor server and I'm curious as to the state of SMP in freebsd stable and current in terms of useability, stability... Can anyone comment? +++++++++++++++++ Nathan Langford nathanl@eden.rutgers.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-smp Fri Oct 19 8:24:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from femail25.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail25.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.254.60.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D443C37B407 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 08:24:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx ([24.2.39.156]) by femail25.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20011019152402.FJMD4954.femail25.sdc1.sfba.home.com@laptop.baldwin.cx>; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 08:24:02 -0700 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 08:23:57 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Nathan Langford Subject: RE: recommendation Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 19-Oct-01 Nathan Langford wrote: > I'm getting a hand-me-down pentiumII dual processor server and I'm curious > as to the state of SMP in freebsd stable and current in terms of > useability, stability... Can anyone comment? Works great for the most part. Kernel-intensive applications won't scale as well as apps that depend more on userland CPU, but that is the only real downside. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message