From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 10 16:41:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDC8F37BB81 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 16:41:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA593550; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 19:41:05 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 19:41:46 -0500 To: Matt Heckaman , FreeBSD-STABLE From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: FreeBSD SMP in 3.4-stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 3:19 PM -0500 3/10/00, Matt Heckaman wrote: >I have a production server which at this time is a single PII 400. I wish >to put in this machine a pair of PII 400 [...] > >My questions is, how tested and stable is the SMP in FreeBSD 3.4-stable? >As this is a production machine, I cannot afford to have problems with it. >For those of you with experience running SMP under 3.4-stable, I would >appreciate your input. Thanks in advance. You might want to give some details of exactly what you are serving. Perhaps there might be a problem with that particular service under an SMP system, for instance. In my case I'm running a constantly-used, moderately busy chat server on a dual-CPU pentium pro. The machine also has anon ftp, and a web server going. I also kind of use it as a "cvs server", in that I have a cvs repository there which I access from a number of other machines using ssh (so, it's not really an "cvs server"...). I run some other numerical-computation things on it, just to soak up idle cycles (ie, they are running all the time, nice-ed, just to use up the cycles). So far the machine has been up for 237 days, and that reboot was when I installed 3.2-release. Prior to that the system had been up over 300 days, running a lucky snapshot of "3.0-beta" (before it was made current, after SMP support but before the switch to ELF). My guess is that 3.4 would be better than 3.2, and I've been quite happy with 3.2 for my purposes. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message