amd64 as nfs-server

[Palle Girgensohn]

--On fredag, april 29, 2005 17.24.03 -0400 Mike Jakubik <mikej at rogers.com> 
wrote:

> On Fri, April 29, 2005 4:00 pm, Palle Girgensohn said:
>
>>> I'm getting a couple of Dell 2850's with dual EMT64 cpu's @ 2.8 GHz to
>>> replace our very trusty PIII-nfs-servers. I am accustomed to the
>>> rock-solid stability of the i386-port of the 5.x-branch and will
>>> probably put i386 on them. But has anyone used the amd64 coupled with PE
>>> 2850's as nfs-servers? They have onboard em-interfaces.
>>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I do use 2850 w/ amd64, and with dual CPU and hyper threading, it is not
>> stable, it crashes a lot. I'm debugging it, we'll see what turns up.
>
> 5.x is known to be unstable with 4 CPUs.
> I bet you would be ok if you
> disabled hyper threading.

It actually says "more than four real CPUs" 
<http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/todo.html>,  so I thought I'd be 
safe. True, though, disabling hyperthreading seems to fix the problem...

/Palle