Re: smp in 5.1

2003-08-14 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:16 PM -0400 8/11/03, Eriq Lamar wrote: Is there any advantage in 5.1 over 4.8 for two amd mp's. and if so could someone tell what they are. I am interested in building dual system using mp's but not sure which version would be better. I run 5.x on a dual-Althon 2000 machine. I have no idea

Re: smp in 5.1

2003-08-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:25:38AM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Eriq Lamar wrote: Is there any advantage in 5.1 over 4.8 for two amd mp's. and if so could someone tell what they are. I am interested in building dual system using mp's but not sure which version would be

Re: smp in 5.1

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Kargl
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:25:38AM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Eriq Lamar wrote: Is there any advantage in 5.1 over 4.8 for two amd mp's. and if so could someone tell what they are. I am interested in building dual system using mp's but not sure which version would be

smp in 5.1

2003-08-14 Thread Eriq Lamar
Is there any advantage in 5.1 over 4.8 for two amd mp's. and if so could someone tell what they are. I am interested in building dual system using mp's but not sure which version would be better. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: smp in 5.1

2003-08-14 Thread Evan Dower
PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: smp in 5.1 Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 22:40:21 -0400 (EDT) I guess I'll chime in as well... I have a Dual Athlon 2000+ MP here and it's running like a charm with SCHED_4BSD. Andy Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant Silicon Landmark, LLC

RE: smp in 5.1

2003-08-14 Thread Andre Guibert de Bruet
PM To: Andy Farkas Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Eriq Lamar Subject: Re: smp in 5.1 On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:25:38AM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Eriq Lamar wrote: Is there any advantage in 5.1 over 4.8 for two amd mp's. and if so could someone tell what they are. I am

Re: smp in 5.1

2003-08-12 Thread Andy Farkas
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Eriq Lamar wrote: Is there any advantage in 5.1 over 4.8 for two amd mp's. and if so could someone tell what they are. I am interested in building dual system using mp's but not sure which version would be better. Scheduling in 5.1 is broken (sched_ule doesn't even

RE: smp in 5.1

2003-08-11 Thread derwood
, August 11, 2003 7:10 PM To: Andy Farkas Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Eriq Lamar Subject: Re: smp in 5.1 On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:25:38AM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Eriq Lamar wrote: Is there any advantage in 5.1 over 4.8 for two amd mp's. and if so could someone tell what

Re: SMP in 5.1 cant deactivate hyperthreading

2003-06-13 Thread Doug White
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Killing wrote: Halting them will still cause the CPUs to be detected. They just won't do any useful work. Yep but the issue is that all the core admin tools are unaware of this and hence include the virtual cores in idle calcs etc making load monitoring impossible

Re: SMP in 5.1 cant deactivate hyperthreading

2003-06-12 Thread Doug White
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Steven Hartland wrote: sysctl machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: 1 Halting them will still cause the CPUs to be detected. They just won't do any useful work. Relevant sections from dmesg: Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #0 IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 - irq 0

Re: SMP in 5.1 cant deactivate hyperthreading

2003-06-12 Thread Killing
- Original Message - From: Doug White [EMAIL PROTECTED] sysctl machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: 1 Halting them will still cause the CPUs to be detected. They just won't do any useful work. Yep but the issue is that all the core admin tools are unaware of this

Re: SMP in 5.1 cant deactivate hyperthreading

2003-06-12 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Killing wrote: - Original Message - From: Doug White [EMAIL PROTECTED] sysctl machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: 1 Halting them will still cause the CPUs to be detected. They just won't do any useful work. Yep but the issue is that

Re: SMP in 5.1 cant deactivate hyperthreading

2003-06-12 Thread Killing
Well, hyperthreading can be disabled via a kernel directive, right? From what I've seen that was removed between 5.0 and 5.1 correct me if Im wrong. Which ever it needs someone to pick it up ASAP dont you think? Really? What's the hurry? FreeBSD 5.x isn't even bootable/installable

Re: SMP in 5.1 cant deactivate hyperthreading

2003-06-12 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Killing wrote this message on Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 18:47 +0100: I suppose the hurry is that basic utils that we use day to day like top and vmstat to monitor machine load cannot be trusted to give accurate info. Actually, the basic tools ARE correct, there is a cpu sitting idle that the

Re: SMP in 5.1 cant deactivate hyperthreading

2003-06-12 Thread Steven Hartland
Original Message - From: John-Mark Gurney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes 5.X is still new tech and may not run on all machines but on the ones which it does ( and it runs very well here ) basic tools are required. If it doesn't run on a machine your under know false impressions, if however

SMP in 5.1 cant deactivate hyperthreading

2003-06-10 Thread Steven Hartland
sysctl machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: 1 Relevant sections from dmesg: Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #0 IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 - irq 0 Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #1 Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #2 FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): apic id: 0,