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From: Indi on 29 Jun 2010 12:40
On 2010-06-29, A.Reader <anonymously(a)example.com> wrote:
> Thanks to all who advised me about freebsd on a Xeon, especially
> Torfinn and Andrew.
>
> In the event, I couldn't afford a 64bitter or "real" Xeon, so I
> ended up with a nice old Poweredge 1500SC box. It's got 2
> 1.13GHz P3s set up for SMP and currently has a copy of W2Kserver
> running on it.
>
> Does anyone have any experience running freebsd on an SMP
> machine? The documentation makes SMP sound dodgy. Is it out of
> date?

SMP is no problem for me. What part of "the documentation"
makes it sound dodgy?

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From: Martin Johnson on 29 Jun 2010 14:17
On 29/06/2010 17:41, A.Reader wrote:
> Thanks to all who advised me about freebsd on a Xeon, especially
> Torfinn and Andrew.
>
> In the event, I couldn't afford a 64bitter or "real" Xeon, so I
> ended up with a nice old Poweredge 1500SC box. It's got 2
> 1.13GHz P3s set up for SMP and currently has a copy of W2Kserver
> running on it.
>
> Does anyone have any experience running freebsd on an SMP
> machine? The documentation makes SMP sound dodgy. Is it out of
> date?

It just works straight out of the box with the generic kernel. No
special configuration necessary.
From: Bob Eager on 29 Jun 2010 14:36
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:41:05 -0400, A.Reader wrote:

> Thanks to all who advised me about freebsd on a Xeon, especially Torfinn
> and Andrew.
>
> In the event, I couldn't afford a 64bitter or "real" Xeon, so I ended up
> with a nice old Poweredge 1500SC box. It's got 2 1.13GHz P3s set up for
> SMP and currently has a copy of W2Kserver running on it.
>
> Does anyone have any experience running freebsd on an SMP machine? The
> documentation makes SMP sound dodgy. Is it out of date?

I'm running it on three different dual core machines, and a hyperthreaded
machine, here.

I'm a heavy user and have seen no issues...not even on the machine that
is the 'package farm'.



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From: Indi on 30 Jun 2010 07:59
On 2010-06-29, A.Reader <anonymously(a)example.com> wrote:
> On 29 Jun 2010 16:40:26 GMT,
> Indi <indi(a)satcidananda.16x108.merseine.nu> wrote:
>
>>On 2010-06-29, A.Reader <anonymously(a)example.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks to all who advised me about freebsd on a Xeon, especially
>>> Torfinn and Andrew.
>>>
>>> In the event, I couldn't afford a 64bitter or "real" Xeon, so I
>>> ended up with a nice old Poweredge 1500SC box. It's got 2
>>> 1.13GHz P3s set up for SMP and currently has a copy of W2Kserver
>>> running on it.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any experience running freebsd on an SMP
>>> machine? The documentation makes SMP sound dodgy. Is it out of
>>> date?
>>
>>SMP is no problem for me. What part of "the documentation"
>>makes it sound dodgy?
>
> It's the intro, where it talks about the docs being "a work in
> progress". Since *everything* with freeBSD is a work in
> progress, I wondered whether the special mention was a tipoff
> that its SMP is especially dodgy. I remember painfully well the
> trouble SCO had getting SMP to work back in the day (and they
> were buying it from *specialists*) so that might have influenced
> me too.

I see. No, SMP is well-supported these days.

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From: Indi on 30 Jun 2010 10:58
On 2010-06-29, A.Reader <anonymously(a)example.com> wrote:
> Thanks, all, for the reassurance. This should be quite an
> interesting experience, especially after SCO :-}

Indeed, it'll probably feel like going from Stalingrad to
Amsterdam. :)

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