Compact Freebsd 'appliance'

[Gardner Bell]

--- On Thu, 6/18/09, John Almberg <jalmberg at identry.com> wrote:

> From: John Almberg <jalmberg at identry.com>
> Subject: Re: Compact Freebsd 'appliance'
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Received: Thursday, June 18, 2009, 10:54 PM
> > There was a discussion on this a
> few days ago. I happen to have one of
> > these Atom based systems, a Shuttle X27D:
> > 
> > CPU: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 
> 330   @ 1.60GHz (1596.01-MHz 686-class CPU)
> >   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id =
> 0x106c2  Stepping = 2
> > 
> >
> Features=0xbfe9fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
> >   Features2=0x40e31d<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,<b22>>
> >   AMD Features=0x20100000<NX,LM>
> >   AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
> >   Cores per package: 2
> >   Logical CPUs per core: 2
> > real memory  = 2137915392 (2038 MB)
> > avail memory = 2086662144 (1989 MB)
> > ACPI APIC Table: <Shuttl Shuttle >
> > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs
> >  cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
> >  cpu1 (AP/HT): APIC ID:  1
> >  cpu2 (AP): APIC ID:  2
> >  cpu3 (AP/HT): APIC ID:  3
> > ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 4
> > ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-23
> > 
> > 
> > This works nicely with FreeBSD (needs only a sysctl
> setting to hush some
> > messages on absurd temperature measurements - all
> onboard devices
> > work).  One disappointing thing about it: the one
> and only fan in the
> > system failed about after a week of continuous
> operation.
> 
> I can't find the discussion you mentioned, but this Shuttle
> looks pretty nice. You can't beat the price of these little
> boards. Thanks.

The discussion of appliance machines took place on the stable mailing list.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-June/thread.html

> 
> --- John
> 
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