On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 06:29 PM 05/01/2005, Mitch Parks wrote: > >It seems both my test and production boxes are not stable with > >5.3-Release. I'm hoping for some insight in how to make at least the > >production box not crash. > >The crashes have been at different times of the day and I've found no > >suspicious log activity. At the moment it's been 9 days since the last > >crash, but it has also crashed in less than a day. ACPI and HT have always > >been enabled on this box without problems. > > I would update to RELENG_5 and disable in the BIOS HTT. HTT for the > most part works against you with the current scheduler and seems to add > more instability. But there have been quite a few fixes in RELENG_5 > that you might benefit from.
FYI, I had something of an odd surprise recently (about two weeks ago) when I re-benchmarked MySQL between HTT and non-HTT on a dual Xeon and got a faster result with HTT on 6.x-CURRENT. I've not yet investigated sufficiently to figure out why I got that result, or if it's a consistent result. It may be the product of recent libpthread changes but I hope to investigate further in a couple of weeks. There was a slight regression in the normal SMP numbers (maybe a couple of percent) but a massive improvement in HTT... My first goal will be to identify the source of the SMP regression, the second to confirm and reason about the HTT change. Robert N M Watson _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
