Latest Opteron 6200 support?

[Soto, Ruben]

Thank you all for the prompt response. 

Take Care and Regards,

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-----Original Message-----
From: John-Mark Gurney [mailto:jmg at funkthat.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 10:11 AM
To: Dennis Glatting
Cc: Soto, Ruben; 'freebsd-amd64 at FreeBSD.org'
Subject: Re: Latest Opteron 6200 support?

Dennis Glatting wrote this message on Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 19:23 -0700:
> On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 23:15 +0000, Soto, Ruben wrote:
> > Dennis, This is excellent! Is there a minimum version of FreeBSD for 
> > these Opterons? I'm assuming V9 is what you're using, correct? Any 
> > 'gotchas' I should be aware of? The RelNotes didn't capture any but 
> > perhaps any docs on optimization may have them. Pointers would be 
> > ideal.
> > 
> 
> 
> mc# uname -a
> FreeBSD mc 9.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE #0 r241306M: Sat Oct  6
> 20:41:22 PDT 2012     root at mc:/usr/obj/disk-1/src/sys/DTRACE  amd64
> 
> 
> I am having a ZFS problem that presently appears to be related to the 
> LSI SAS2008 chips but it is too early to tell. I had few non-ZFS 
> related problems. I have three 6200 systems and have been using them 
> for approximately a year, more or less.
> 
> I have had two problems with the igb drivers. One is a lack of driver 
> support for large MTUs but works fine with the default 1500. The other 
> may have been my ZFS problem in disguise but it hasn't shown itself is 
> several months). The em0 driver worked without trouble.
> 
> Otherwise they have worked fine.

Not exactly the same, but similar, I'm running an Opteron 4228 HE on:
FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE #4 r241041M: Mon Oct 15 23:30:25 PDT 2012
    jmg at gold.funkthat.com:/usr/src.9stable/sys/amd64/compile/gold amd64

The only "issue" I had was lots of error messages when ever powerd would change processor speed... There is a patch out there to fix it...

I haven't been having issues w/ ZFS...  I have a fully GELI+ZFS system, both root and data store and its working fine...  I'm using an HPT2720SGL adapter for most of the disks issues so far..

The system is lightly loaded, but has been working well...

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