Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:01:23 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Jimmy <freebsd@oranged.to> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD64- Solutions Message-ID: <20041202180123.GA12734@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <41AED65C.1070301@oranged.to> References: <41AED65C.1070301@oranged.to>
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On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 08:46:20AM +0000, Jimmy wrote: > > I am interested to know how well the FreeBSD 5.3+ system handles the AMD > 64 processors in a dual proc configuration. The project that we are > working on currently requires large amounts of RAM (16gb). Because of > this we are looking down the AMD road using a dual opteron configuration. FreeBSD/amd64 works well on a dual opteron Tyan K8S Pro system with less than 8 GB of memory. It does not boot if you have more than 8 GB. See the FreeBSD-amd64 list over the last week or 2 for detailed emails continaing the panic messages. > a) how reliable is the AMD 64 port of FreeBSD > b) how good is the multiprocessing AMD 64? > c) any advice would be seriously great to have. If you need 16GB (which I do), I suggest that you avoid FreeBSD/amd64 on the Tyan K8S Pro motherboard. I have experience with other motherboards, so YMMV. As a side note, NetBSD/amd64's installation cdrom boots and finds the 16 GB of memory on my system. I'll be installing NetBSD later today to see how it performs. -- Steve
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