From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 23 18:26:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CB7A16A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:26:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from anduin.net (anduin.net [212.12.46.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 424EF43D58 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:26:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ltning@anduin.net) Received: from mailnull by anduin.net with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34; FreeBSD) id 1BdCRo-000LK0-Kx for current@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:26:23 +0200 Received: from [217.8.136.185] (helo=[192.168.1.10]) by anduin.net with esmtp (Exim 4.34; FreeBSD) id 1BdCRT-000LJb-2i; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:25:51 +0200 Message-ID: <40D9CAFD.6050005@anduin.net> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:25:01 +0200 From: Eirik Oeverby User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040504) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca References: <60352.142.24.181.169.1088011343.squirrel@142.24.181.169> In-Reply-To: <60352.142.24.181.169.1088011343.squirrel@142.24.181.169> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on anduin.net X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=7.5 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Level: cc: "'current@freebsd.org'" cc: Sean Page Subject: Re: FreeBSD on 64 bit AMD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:26:55 -0000 Freddie Cash wrote: >>Is anyone out there running FreeBSD on the AMD Opteron Processor 200 >>Series? > > >>We're looking at putting a Sun V20z into production and I would very >>much appreciate hearing any experiences out there using this hardware >>with FreeBSD. > > > Pop over to http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/ and read through the > various threads about this. There are quite a few people running > 32-bit and 64-bit FreeBSD on the Athlon64 and Opteron. Some are > having nothing but problems, other are having nothing but smooth > sailing. Their experiences appear to depend on the ports they are > running. And what kernel revision. I seem to have found a 'sweet spot' with a rock solid kernel right now, but for about two weeks after upgrading my dual p3 to a dual opteron, it was crashing every second day due to some kernel issues. Was never able to debug it though, since I'm sitting in Oslo (Norway) and the box is in Hamburg (Germany), so all I could do was upgrading kernel/world small steps at a time until it survived a night ;) But right now, it's pretty darn smooth. And the fastest box I've ever laid my hands on, locally or remote. /Eirik