[Fwd: HTT/SMP servers instability on 5.3-STABLE]

[Colin J. Raven]

On Dec 10, Toomas Aas launched this into the bitstream:

> klr at 6s-gaming.com wrote:
>
>> Please share some common dual processor system knowledge, perhaps I'm
>> missing something really obvious and making these servers unstable.
>
> For more than a month now, I've been running a Dual Xeon 2000 system (IBM 
> eServer xSeries 225) with 5.3-RC2 and later upgraded to 5.3-RELEASE and I 
> have no problems at all. Hyperthreading is disabled in BIOS, ACPI is enabled.

Excuse me for jumping into this thread but could you elaborate as to why 
you have Nyperthreading disabled? We're about to run a dual cpu box 
ourselves so this is highly relevant (as well as just plain 'ol 
fascinating!!)

Regards,
-Colin
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Colin J. Raven
NetBSD on a Cobalt Qube2 - http://www.NetBSD.org - 
Fri Dec 10 19:27:00 UTC 2004
  7:27PM  up  3:40, 5 users, load averages: 1.27, 1.18, 1.17