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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: Need advice for SMP production server
In-Reply-To: <199707201635.KAA00807@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> from Steve Passe at "Jul 20, 97 10:35:50 am"
To: smp@csn.net (Steve Passe)
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 12:05:12 -0500 (EST)
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> Hi,
> 
> >   I need some advice regarding a full reinstall for an 2xP133 server (Tyan
> > Tomcat III S1563D with AHA2940AU).
> > ...
> >   From what I read on the -current and -smp lists I understood that there
> > are some minor problems with the 06/18 snapshot and also that Steve is
> > started the long awaited move from the 'giant lock' to the 'finer grained
> > lock' kernel architecture, which means current kernels are pretty
> > untrustable.
> >   For the situation to be clear I attached an 'mptable -verbose -dmesg'
> > output.
> 
> your mptable shows the proper connections for the new code.  I would tend
> to suggest the latest SNAP: 970718.  Most reports are of good success.
> 
One problem -- there is an issue with my latest VM changes.  You'll want
to remove pmap_addr_hint call from vm_mmap.c.  It (indirectly) breaks X.

John