Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 15:52:40 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20010415155240.A976@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104160037390.39329-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>; from ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de on Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:48:42AM %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104160037390.39329-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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* Hartmann, O. <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> [010415 15:48] wrote: > Dear Sirs. > > I would like to ask for stability for several SMP systems running > FreeBSD. > As I heard about some rumours SMP systems under FreeBSD tend to reboot > spontanously after a while and the fact, that we here reboot our systems > nearly every week due a frequent cvsupdate, I feel a little bit confused > and would like to hear about other experiences. ~ % uname -srm FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386 ~ % uptime 3:49PM up 64 days, 12:54, 1 user, load averages: 0.29, 0.22, 0.45 ~ % uptime 3:50PM up 64 days, 12:56, 2 users, load averages: 0.61, 0.55, 0.41 ~ % uname -srm FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386 ~ % uptime 3:50PM up 12 days, 18:51, 1 user, load averages: 0.04, 0.17, 0.23 ~ % uname -srm FreeBSD 4.3-RC i386 These are some pretty heavily loaded databases under my care atm. All downtime has been scheduled. I really haven't seen any stability issues in the 4.x series for pretty generic setups along with SMP. However, you shouldn't be using APM with SMP, afaik most APM BIOS are not smp safe. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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