From owner-freebsd-smp Sat Oct 16 13:10:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A2DF15495 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 13:10:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.42]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA54919; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 15:10:18 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 15:10:18 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Mike Meyer Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP on 4 Pentium III(450NX) failed In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Mike Meyer wrote: > > The headache that comes with it is you have to manage all those > systems. I've not found a clean approach yet. Is anyone working on one > - or better yet, have one? Hire good admins? What I have tried to do is be as consistent as possible. Build machines that are as close to identical as possible. Use the same hardware in machines, this makes it easier to stock spares, and reduces the number of awful this doesn't work with that problems you have to deal with. Design the application so that the thing is split on logical boundries. Make the sections look as much alike as possible. Automate everything that can be possible automated. O David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message