From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 30 19:12:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E80E16A4CE for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 19:12:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from imo-m23.mx.aol.com (imo-m23.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8CB843D41 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 19:12:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from TM4525@aol.com) Received: from TM4525@aol.com by imo-m23.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.8.) id n.1df.2d9e5862 (25305) for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 15:12:35 -0400 (EDT) From: TM4525@aol.com Message-ID: <1df.2d9e5862.2eb541a3@aol.com> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 15:12:35 EDT To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5114 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Re: 7520 Chipset support in 4.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 19:12:42 -0000 > > Many of the new MBs from such tiny vendors as Dell and Supermicro > > are based on the 7520, and word is that FreeBSD 4.x doesn't support > > it. Is support forthcoming? > > We have 2 Dell PowerEdge 1850 servers which have the e7520 chipset. They > hang consistently in 4.10-RELEASE and below whenever there is high network > or disk utilization. We have not been able to get any debugging info. > After upgrading to 4.10-STABLE a couple of weeks ago, they no longer hang, > but they are _really_ slow to perform network and disk operations. > > They work fine in FreeBSD 5.3, but unfortunately our applications do not > run without recompiling. We do not want to change our environment to > support different binaries for different machines, and we don't want to > use 5.X in production until it is STABLE. > > I want to echo the above question. Are there patches available or > forthcoming to fix the problems with the e7520? > > Thanks, > > - > Rob Watt I think that we can imply from the lack of response on this subject that 4.x is not really still supported, since just about all of the new motherboards for Intel processors from leaders Dell and Supermicro are based on the 7520. So, ironically, in order to use the newer, faster processors with FreeBSD, you have to use the newer, slower version of the O/S. Yikes!