From owner-freebsd-smp Sat Oct 16 14:45: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from guru.phone.net (guru.phone.net [216.240.39.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A152E14DFF for ; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 14:44:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@phone.net) Received: (qmail 48768 invoked by uid 100); 16 Oct 1999 21:44:47 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Oct 1999 21:44:47 -0000 Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 14:44:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Meyer To: 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, David Scheidt wrote: ;->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? Which leads to the obvious next question: anyone know a good way to find (and keep) good admins? :-) Throwing resources at a problem - especially when it's an expensive, hard-to-find resource - isn't what I'd call a clean solution. Or maybe this is a meta-solution: you keep hiring good admins until one comes up with a clean solution for you? ;->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 That's the best I've run into as well. Extensive use of such tools as rdist or rsync helps a lot. Even better is using a SCM tool as a distribution mechanism, though that's stretching things a bit. It just seems like there ought to be a better way.