Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:08:03 -0800 From: Brian <bri@brianwhalen.net> To: Joshua Coombs <jcoombs@gwi.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7 on old SMP server? Message-ID: <476ABD93.3080707@brianwhalen.net> In-Reply-To: <fke7ua$k5o$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <fk927j$3pm$1@ger.gmane.org> <200712201706.lBKH6fwn067680@lurza.secnetix.de> <fke7ua$k5o$1@ger.gmane.org>
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Joshua Coombs wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: >> >> > My hacked up 386 showed gains going from 6.2 to 7, the big win >> that I've > noticed is scp throughput, I can sustain 40 to 45kbps >> where in the past > the box walled at around 30kbps. Apache seems >> to have less latency > responding to gets also. I'm just running a >> 7b3 kernel at the moment, > I'm going to have to repartition with a >> lot more swap space to be able > to build a 7 world (When did the >> ram use for a buildworld skyrocket?!) > but even with this setup, 7 >> + ULE is a win for me. >> >> Are you saying you run FreeBSD 7 on an 80386(SX/DX) machine? >> How exactly did you hack it? As far as I know, support for >> 80386 processors was removed from FreeBSD a while ago. > > For a very short while with 6.0 I was tweaking the kernel to detect > 386s as 486s, as well as using CPU_DISABLE_CMPXCHG and having ok > luck. I've now got a Cyrix 486DrX-2 66 installed in place of my > Am386DX-40, which supports CMPXCHG as well as ID'ing as a 486 so I > don't need to do any tweaking to stay running. > > If I can get another viable 386DX box reassembled I'll see if 7 can be > pressed into functioning on it as 6 could. > > Joshua Coombs > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Would that be a multiday buildworld? Brian
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