Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 19:03:49 -0400 From: "JL" <jl@burghcom.com> To: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>, <freebsd-smp@freebsd.org> Cc: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Message-ID: <002101c0c600$55cfdf40$060aa8c0@celery> References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104160037390.39329-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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I've had 180+ day uptimes on SMP FreeBSD4.x servers. I have never had one reboot unless I type the command. Jeff Love ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> To: <freebsd-smp@freebsd.org> Cc: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 6:48 PM > 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. > > Our mainservers use TYAN's Thunder 2500 mainboard with AMI MegaRAID Enterprise > 1600 RAID controllers and all other servers use SCSI, not IDE. > I realized, that switching APM on in the kernel of the TYAN SMP system > causes the system to reboot sponanously, maybe due the fact that the BIOS (1.4) > is not APM capable (why for servers?). > > All right, to make this short: are there any experiences about how long SMP > systems under recent FreeBSD systems can run under heavy or moderate load > and keep on duty without forced reboots or reboot by crash? > > The focus should be on ServerWorks based chipsets used with SCSI and modern > SMP boards of the lower range of the pricing list, like ASUS CUV4X-D. > > We use TYAN (Thunder 2500, LSI869 and LSI1010 based Slot-1 boards) and > ASUS CUV4X-d boards (FC-PGA) with SCSI equipment. > > Nearby: I heard about a roumor that ServerWorks based IDE systems tend to > have problems. > Please then note this: we have two ASUS A7V based system, both the same CPU, > both the same memory type, both the same newest BIOS revision, but one is SCSI, > one is IDE (ATA100) based. We changed SCSI and IDE (swapping the drives) and > for that, this phenomenon was stuck on IDE: 'shutdown -r now' does not work > on IDE, we must reboot our system by 'reboot'. > > -- > MfG > O. Hartmann > > ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > IT-Administration des Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz > Becherweg 21 > 55099 Mainz > > Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinensaal) > Tel: +496131/3924144 > FAX: +496131/3923532 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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