Re: FreeBSD 7.1 SMP on IBM x330 Dual Processor server

2009-01-27 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 03:57:50PM -0700, Tom Everett wrote: I'm running the stock FreeBSD 7.1 kernel on an IBM x330 machine. The machine has two physical processors but it seems that FreeBSD 7.1 on sees one. I downloaded the kernel source and it seems that the GENERIC kernel has SMP

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 SMP on IBM x330 Dual Processor server

2009-01-27 Thread Tom Everett
How does the kernel I would build from that link differ from the stock 7.1 kernel? Ewald Jenisch wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 03:57:50PM -0700, Tom Everett wrote: I'm running the stock FreeBSD 7.1 kernel on an IBM x330 machine. The machine has two physical processors but it seems

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 SMP on IBM x330 Dual Processor server

2009-01-27 Thread Tom Everett
Am I correct in my understanding that the stock kernel is GENERIC? Ewald Jenisch wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 03:57:50PM -0700, Tom Everett wrote: I'm running the stock FreeBSD 7.1 kernel on an IBM x330 machine. The machine has two physical processors but it seems that FreeBSD 7.1 on

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 SMP on IBM x330 Dual Processor server

2009-01-27 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 06:57:32 Tom Everett wrote: How does the kernel I would build from that link differ from the stock 7.1 kernel? It doesn't. It's the generic upgrading fixes all advice. I don't see anything since 7.1-RELEASE in 7.1-STABLE even, that would have the potential to fix

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 SMP on IBM x330 Dual Processor server

2009-01-27 Thread Tom Everett
Thanks! Mel wrote: On Tuesday 27 January 2009 06:57:32 Tom Everett wrote: How does the kernel I would build from that link differ from the stock 7.1 kernel? It doesn't. It's the generic upgrading fixes all advice. I don't see anything since 7.1-RELEASE in 7.1-STABLE even, that would

FreeBSD 7.1 SMP on IBM x330 Dual Processor server

2009-01-26 Thread Tom Everett
I'm running the stock FreeBSD 7.1 kernel on an IBM x330 machine. The machine has two physical processors but it seems that FreeBSD 7.1 on sees one. I downloaded the kernel source and it seems that the GENERIC kernel has SMP installed. Is there something else I can try? Thanks in advance

How to find CPU IDLE Percentage on SMP (Dual processor Host)

2008-02-08 Thread Devanand SP
Hi Everyone, I am using a FreeBSD version 4.11 for running my BIND. I am in a need of setting up an audit for the CPU Utilization on my resolvers and have a query about finding the CPU IDLE percentage on a DUAL processor hosts. As the BIND binary uses only the first processor, the second CPU

Re: How to find CPU IDLE Percentage on SMP (Dual processor Host)

2008-02-08 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Devanand SP wrote: Hi Everyone, I am using a FreeBSD version 4.11 for running my BIND. I am in a need of setting up an audit for the CPU Utilization on my resolvers and have a query about finding the CPU IDLE percentage on a DUAL processor hosts. As the BIND binary uses only the first

Dual Processor?

2008-01-19 Thread Chris Maness
Is there a way to see if the system is utilizing both processors on a two processor system? I seem to remember the top command in Linux showed the load balance between the two processors (I could be wrong it has been a while since I used it). Is there some ap that can display these kinds of

Re: Dual Processor?

2008-01-19 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Saturday 19 January 2008 10:30:49 am Chris Maness wrote: Is there a way to see if the system is utilizing both processors on a two processor system? I seem to remember the top command in Linux showed the load balance between the two processors (I could be wrong it has been a while since I

Re: Dual Processor?

2008-01-19 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Jonathan Horne wrote: On Saturday 19 January 2008 10:30:49 am Chris Maness wrote: Is there a way to see if the system is utilizing both processors on a two processor system? I seem to remember the top command in Linux showed the load balance between the two processors (I could be wrong it

Re: Non-identical CPUs in dual-processor system

2005-05-20 Thread Tony Shadwick
measuring the load on the cpus, I twould think it should balance that load nicely, just be sure to compile your apps for threading where it's supported (perl comes to mind). Tony On Thu, 19 May 2005, Brian O'Shea wrote: Hello all, I have a dual-processor system that I have been using with only

Non-identical CPUs in dual-processor system

2005-05-19 Thread Brian O'Shea
Hello all, I have a dual-processor system that I have been using with only a single CPU for some time. Recently I got ahold of another CPU from an old retired system. I thought that both processors were identical (they came from what appears to be the same model PC, an HP Kayak XU). However

dual processor

2005-04-19 Thread William Biggs
I have a dual processor server Will freebsd use them both is so When I install it how do I get it to use it ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: dual processor

2005-04-19 Thread Brian McCann
. If you build the sample LINT kernel config, it will show you in there. Good luck, --Brian On 4/19/05, William Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a dual processor server Will freebsd use them both is so When I install it how do I get it to use

Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2004-09-24 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Bruce Campbell wrote: I've manually set: atacontrol mode 0 UDMA33 UDMA33 and the problem has not recurred. That sort of hints that there's some issue with the cabling, as UDMA33 is the highest you can go on a 40wire IDE cable. Going beyond requires an 80wire cable (

Re: dual processor and FreeBSD 4.9

2004-05-10 Thread Mat Kovach
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-05-10 20:16:50 +0200]: Hello, I am in trouble with FreeBSD 4.9p, I have got dual processor server (2 x Pentium II 400MHz) and I would like that FreeBSD could be able to use the both of them. I have readen that you need to compile the kernel once again, but I would

dual processor and FreeBSD 4.9

2004-05-10 Thread Vivailsud Staff Member
Hello, I am in trouble with FreeBSD 4.9p, I have got dual processor server (2 x Pentium II 400MHz) and I would like that FreeBSD could be able to use the both of them. I have readen that you need to compile the kernel once again, but I would like to know which modifies I should apply to resolve

Re: dual processor and FreeBSD 4.9

2004-05-10 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:16 PM +0200 5/10/04, Vivailsud Staff Member wrote: Hello, I am in trouble with FreeBSD 4.9p, I have got dual processor server (2 x Pentium II 400MHz) and I would like that FreeBSD could be able to use the both of them. I have read that you need to compile the kernel once again, but I would

Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-10 Thread Francesco Casadei
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 03:02:46PM +0100, Francesco Casadei wrote: [snip] Yesterday I checked the drive ad6 with the Drive Fitness Test program from IBM. Both quick and advanced test returned that the drive is ok. I then ran the test against ad0 (the backup drive): the quick test showed that

Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-06 Thread Guy Dawson
This article from The Register may be of interest: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/18267.html It talks about a bug in the VIA 686B Southbridge chipset that can cause data corruption when processing large amounts of data. Guy --

Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-05 Thread Francesco Casadei
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 01:42:03PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: [snip] I don't have it enabled: hw.ata.tags: 0 I've manually set: atacontrol mode 0 UDMA33 UDMA33 and the problem has not recurred. -- Bruce Campbell Engineering Computing CPH-2374B University of Waterloo

Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-05 Thread Bruce Campbell
Quoting Bruce Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Matthew Emmerton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [ cc'ing Soren since he's the ATA guru ] Dec 30 23:27:00 ecserv13 /kernel: ad0: trying fallback to PIO mode Dec 30 23:27:00 ecserv13 /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done The test

Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-05 Thread Adam Maas
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 10:01 PM Subject: Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems Quoting Bruce Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Matthew Emmerton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [ cc'ing Soren since he's the ATA guru ] Dec

Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-02 Thread Francesco Casadei
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 03:57:16PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: I am seeing a problem with ata disks on 4 new systems, which I believe is either a bug in the ata driver, or a problem with the onboard IDE controller, or something else. Systems are as follows: Motherboard: ASUS A7M266-D

Followup to fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-02 Thread Bruce Campbell
By the way, I've determined our removable IDE disk trays are manufactured by SNT (http://www.snt.com.tw/metal.htm) and are part number SNT-129. It looks like these are the same ones startech sells. I've placed my hardware configuration here:

Re: Followup to 'fallback to PIO mode' on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-02 Thread nate
Bruce Campbell said: - try UDMA100 with the drives directly attached (ie. no removable tray) - maybe try a non onboard IDE controller yes I would reccomend a PCI ide controller, such as the Promise ATA/100, or Promise ATA/66. Also be sure your IDE cables are 18 and not 24 or 32 some people

Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-02 Thread Bruce Campbell
Quoting Francesco Casadei [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 03:57:16PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: I am seeing a problem with ata disks on 4 new systems, which I believe is either a bug in the ata driver, or a problem with the onboard IDE controller, or something else. Systems

Re: Followup to fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-02 Thread Bruce Evans
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Bruce Campbell wrote: At present, I don't suspect bad media because the error message is WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 which doesn't suggest a specific sector/track etc, and running with UDMA33 instead of UDMA100 makes the problem appear to vanish. The fallback is

Re: Followup to fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-02 Thread Bruce Campbell
Quoting Bruce Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Bruce Campbell wrote: At present, I don't suspect bad media because the error message is WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 which doesn't suggest a specific sector/track etc, and running with UDMA33 instead of UDMA100 makes the

Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-02 Thread Francesco Casadei
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 01:42:03PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: [snip] I don't have it enabled: hw.ata.tags: 0 I've manually set: atacontrol mode 0 UDMA33 UDMA33 and the problem has not recurred. -- Bruce Campbell Engineering Computing CPH-2374B University of Waterloo

Re: Followup to fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-02 Thread Barney Wolff
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 06:36:29AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: The fallback is clearly wrong because it turns isolated media errors into pessimized i/o for the whole disk at best, system hangs during resets next best, and system crashes at worst. I keep a disk with bad media on line for

ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2002-12-31 Thread Bruce Campbell
I am seeing a problem with ata disks on 4 new systems, which I believe is either a bug in the ata driver, or a problem with the onboard IDE controller, or something else. Systems are as follows: Motherboard: ASUS A7M266-D CPUs : 2 x 2000+ AMD MP Memory : 2 x 512MB Crucial part:

Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2002-12-31 Thread Matthew Emmerton
[ cc'ing Soren since he's the ATA guru ] I am seeing a problem with ata disks on 4 new systems, which I believe is either a bug in the ata driver, or a problem with the onboard IDE controller, or something else. Systems are as follows: Motherboard: ASUS A7M266-D CPUs : 2 x 2000+ AMD

Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2002-12-31 Thread Bruce Campbell
Quoting Matthew Emmerton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [ cc'ing Soren since he's the ATA guru ] Dec 30 23:27:00 ecserv13 /kernel: ad0: trying fallback to PIO mode Dec 30 23:27:00 ecserv13 /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done The test continues to run with the ata controller in PIO mode, with

Re: Dual Processor

2002-12-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:45:55AM +0530, Abhay Kumar Srivastava wrote: Hi, I want to run freeBSD 3.2 on a dual processor intell xenon machine. I tried using the SMP option in the config file. Is there a utility by which i can accertain if freeBSD has detected both the processors

Dual Processor

2002-12-03 Thread Abhay Kumar Srivastava
Hi, I want to run freeBSD 3.2 on a dual processor intell xenon machine. I tried using the SMP option in the config file. Is there a utility by which i can accertain if freeBSD has detected both the processors and can use them. Regards, Abhay To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Dual Processor

2002-12-03 Thread Duncan Anker
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 15:15, Abhay Kumar Srivastava wrote: Hi, I want to run freeBSD 3.2 on a dual processor intell xenon machine. I tried using the SMP option in the config file. Is there a utility by which i can accertain if freeBSD has detected both the processors and can use them