Re: 6-CORE Dunnington

From: Ivan Voras <ivoras_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:12:10 +0200
Mars G Miro wrote:

> Someone mentioned the same boot hangup problems I've had and the 'fix'
> was to boot to some other OS first, like Linux. I tried Slackware 12.1

That was me...

> (also hangs somewhere during boot) and then Ubuntu 8.04 (am able to go
> into the install screen) but rebooting back to freebsd is no go. Then

Hmm, Ubuntu (64-bit) worked for me.

> I recalled we were able to successfully install 64-bit Windows 2003
> Server on it. So I booted it to the windows 2003 server just to the
> point where it asks to install it, then rebooted it to the already
> installed FreeBSD.

So the problem looks like it has something to do with hardware
initialization.

> Also it detects only 16CPUs instead of 24. Win2k3 detects all 24.

On Wed Oct  1 21:59:04 2008 John Baldwin increased the limit on CPUs to
32 for both AMD64 and i386. There is ongoing work to increase this to 64
CPUs in the 64-bit version.

> 
> make -j16 buildworld:  4442.721u 3236.681s 16:29.50 776.0%
> 6064+6203k 539+8258io 15117pf+0w
> 
> But I have an HP DL380 Quad-Core Xeon that rebuilds the world in just
> 13 minutes :-p

21 minutes with 2x4-core 1.86 GHz Xeon :(



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