Access to quad-CPU machines (Re: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE on a two procesor system)

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 02:51:56PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 December 2004 07:37 am, KC Somaratne wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > can it be an odd number of cpu's? like 3 or 5 cpu?
> 
> FreeBSD can, but I don't think there are any motherboards out there that do 
> that.  I've run the 4-way testbox I have here with 3 CPUs by using a hint in 
> -current to disable one of the cpus (hint.lapic.2.disabled=1 or the like).

BTW, I've recently gained access to a quad-cpu E450 (thanks, hrs!) and
have been coming across some new and interesting panics on RELENG_5
(which rwatson is investigating).  I'd like to have access to more
quad machines so I can see what else I can shake out.

Does anyone else have a spare quad-CPU machine with reasonable net
connection, and would like to to donate remote root access to me for
package building (i.e. FreeBSD QA)?

Kris
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