Re: hyper threading.

2005-03-28 Thread Boris Spirialitious
--- Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Polling is simply unecessary in most cases. You could get better performance using an em driver and setting max ints to whatever is optimal for your system. Polling adds latency and over head for no good

RE: AMD64 much slower than i386 on FreeBSD 5.4-pre

2005-03-25 Thread Boris Spirialitious
--- Subhro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 20:53 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD64 much slower than i386 on

Re: AMD64 much slower than i386 on FreeBSD 5.4-pre

2005-03-24 Thread Boris Spirialitious
--- jason henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The answer, Boris, is that the team has no idea what they're doing. Check out some of the threads on performance testing. They tune little pieces here and there, and break 10 other things in the process.

Re: AMD64 much slower than i386 on FreeBSD 5.4-pre

2005-03-24 Thread Boris Spirialitious
I think you may be right. I try Broadcom gigE card with same results. Very slow for amd64 build. With same hardware, very good results with 4.9/i386, not too bad with 5.4-pre/i386, and very, very poor with 5.4-pre/amd64. Boris --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the point of a list is so that

Re: Teaming / Load Sharing of NIC Cards

2005-03-23 Thread Boris Spirialitious
--- Doug Paquette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Group, I have an HP Proliant DL380 G3 and I am interested in teaming or load sharing (what ever its called) my two NIC cards that are in my server. I have been reading about this that I am suppose to find free bsd drivers to make this work???

AMD64 much slower than i386 on FreeBSD 5.4-pre

2005-03-23 Thread Boris Spirialitious
--- Emanuel Strobl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 23. März 2005 01:19 schrieb Boris Spirialitious: -- Emanuel Strobl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 23. März 2005 00:38 schrieb Boris Spirialitious: I have opteron 246 system with 2 port intel em card. We have test

Re: Teaming / Load Sharing of NIC Cards

2005-03-23 Thread Boris Spirialitious
the work load on each card so one card isnt doing all the work, and with me having two cards i thought i would see about trying it out. Doug --- Boris Spirialitious [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Doug Paquette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

AMD64 very slow!

2005-03-22 Thread Boris Spirialitious
I have opteron 246 system with 2 port intel em card. We have test bed with about 200Kbs traffic and we route through 5.3/i386 system. Load is about 50%. With same settings, amd64 system run with 85% load. How could be so slow? What tuning extra is needed for amd64 kernels? Boris

Re: AMD64 very slow!

2005-03-22 Thread Boris Spirialitious
-- Emanuel Strobl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 23. März 2005 00:38 schrieb Boris Spirialitious: I have opteron 246 system with 2 port intel em card. We have test bed with about 200Kbs traffic and we route through 5.3/i386 system. Load is about 50%. With same settings, amd64

Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question

2005-03-18 Thread Boris Spirialitious
--- Boris Spirialitious [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:50:22AM -0800, Boris Spirialitious wrote: When opteron support start for Freebsd? I have 4.9. is supported? Or 4.11 better? I can't use 5.x. Well, AMD64

Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question

2005-03-18 Thread Boris Spirialitious
--- Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Boris Spirialitious wrote: --- Boris Spirialitious [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:50:22AM -0800, Boris Spirialitious wrote: When opteron support start for Freebsd? I have

Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question

2005-03-18 Thread Boris Spirialitious
--- Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kenneth Culver wrote: Quoting Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Boris Spirialitious wrote: --- Boris Spirialitious [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:50:22AM -0800, Boris

Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question

2005-03-17 Thread Boris Spirialitious
--- Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:50:22AM -0800, Boris Spirialitious wrote: When opteron support start for Freebsd? I have 4.9. is supported? Or 4.11 better? I can't use 5.x. Well, AMD64 support as a tier-1 platform only came in with 5.x, so

Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question

2005-03-16 Thread Boris Spirialitious
--- Boris Spirialitious [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When opteron support start for Freebsd? I have 4.9. is supported? Or 4.11 better? I can't use 5.x. Will a i386 disk boot on opteron system? Can I use same disk image for intel and amd MBs? Any big problems? Thanks, Boris Does anyone

Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question

2005-03-16 Thread Boris Spirialitious
--- Stas Myasnikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:43:33 -0800 (PST), Boris Spirialitious [EMAIL PROTECTED] ïèñàë(à): When opteron support start for Freebsd? I have 4.9. is supported? Or 4.11 better? I can't use 5.x. AFAIK FreeBSD4 isn't run on amd64 in 64-bit mode

Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question

2005-03-16 Thread Boris Spirialitious
slower version of O/S? Please don't start with flames. This is what I feel. I don't need so much RAM, so 4.x will work with 1 or 2GB of RAM? Boris On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 09:43 -0800, Boris Spirialitious wrote: --- Boris Spirialitious [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When opteron support start

FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question

2005-03-15 Thread Boris Spirialitious
When opteron support start for Freebsd? I have 4.9. is supported? Or 4.11 better? I can't use 5.x. Will a i386 disk boot on opteron system? Can I use same disk image for intel and amd MBs? Any big problems? Thanks, Boris __ Do you Yahoo!?

Re: Mrs. Butterworth vs Vermont Maid

2005-01-21 Thread Boris Spirialitious
Colin Raven vomits: I have nothing but *stellar* regard for the individuals who take such immense time and effort to help others on this list. I feel privileged to belong to this community, and grateful for a huge amount of guidance advice and help I've received here. I wouldn't have a

Re: Mrs. Butterworth vs Vermont Maid

2005-01-20 Thread Boris Spirialitious
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Re: Unable to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a SMP box

2005-01-15 Thread Boris Spirialitious
Hi there I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a dual p3 box: asus cuv4x-d mobo adaptec AHA-2940 uw and 29160 I'm using the lastest bios when I try to boot I get a lot of hexadecimal codes and the I get BTX HALTED I dont think there is any hardware problem because GNU/Linux installs without a

Thank you!

2005-01-13 Thread Boris Spirialitious
I just wanted to thank you for making Freebsd 5.3 so badly. We changed to linux and our application runs so much faster its unbelievable. I report a small problem and they work hard to fix it. Not like freebsd do they make fun of me or ask me to give them hardware. Its like a real product this

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-13 Thread Boris Spirialitious
Oh, but I do understand! FreeBSD is not good choice for companies that need support for the latest hardware. Thank you for informing me. Boris Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to thank you for making Freebsd 5.3 so badly. We changed to linux and our application

RE: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Boris Spirialitious
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Boris Spirialitious Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 3:25 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD None of the new Supermicro hardware I've

Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-04 Thread Boris Spirialitious
None of the new Supermicro hardware I've tried works with Freebsd 4.10 properly. I've seen that this has been reported by others. They are all based on the 7520 and 7530 Intel chips. 5.3 works ok, but a 3.4/800 processor on 5.3 is slower than a 3.06/533 processor on our old 7502 chipset based

Re: inetd problem with 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-11 Thread Boris Spirialitious
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 05:16:10PM -0800, Boris Spirialitious wrote: inetd[xxx]: unknown rpc/udp6 rpc/tcp6 Any modification of GENERIC from 5.3 seems to have the problem. I have another config that I ported from 4.x that works fine (with lots

inetd problem with 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-10 Thread Boris Spirialitious
When I build some custom kernels, inetd is refusing to run with the error: inetd[xxx]: unknown rpc/udp6 rpc/tcp6 Any modification of GENERIC from 5.3 seems to have the problem. I have another config that I ported from 4.x that works fine (with lots of stuff turned off). It must be some

Re: inetd problem with 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-10 Thread Boris Spirialitious
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 02:18:34PM -0800, Boris Spirialitious wrote: When I build some custom kernels, inetd is refusing to run with the error: inetd[xxx]: unknown rpc/udp6 rpc/tcp6 Any modification of GENERIC from 5.3 seems to have the problem