New Dell 2650 notes from the field?

[Kyle McPeek]

Hi,

I am running 4.8-STABLE from Feb 20 on a dual 2.2GHz Dell 2650 with 2GB
of memory.  This machine is a production PostgreSQL server that maintains
100+ connections.  I have enabled Hyperthreading and SMP.

CPU: Intel(R) XEON(TM) CPU 2.20GHz (2192.90-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf24  Stepping = 4

Features=0x3febfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM>
  Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs
real memory  = 2147418112 (2097088K bytes)
avail memory = 2088140800 (2039200K bytes)

It's current uptime is 95 days and the previous down time was due to
maintainence.  It has had double digit load averages (20-30) in the last
95 days.

The machine just runs.  The SCSI raid controller works very well and I
have replaced drives before with no loss of uptime or functionality.

You should have no problems running FreeBSD on this machine.

kyle.

On Wed, 26 May 2004, Gerald wrote:

> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz (2386.10-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf29  Stepping = 9
> Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,
> CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>   Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs
>
> I'm setting up FreeBSD on a few dual Xeon Dell 2650s to be deployed soon.
> I can make do with a single proc until FreeBSD has more mature SMP
> ability. I'm actually going to roll it out as a 4.8 box and upgrade to 4.9
> in the future. (When something necessitates it.) I recently posted to
> -stable about a Compaq that had random lockups that had to be power cycled
> to unhang it. Disabling SMP finally resolved the problem, so I'm very
> leery of SMP in FreeBSD for the time being. The machine would run fine
> under no load and even make it 24-72 hours under heavy load before
> freezing.
>
> Does anyone have any pointers about FreeBSD + or - SMP on these
> Poweredge 2650's under a decent load? I saw one post where someone
> installed 5.1 on a 2650 (Stefan in 6/2003), but I don't know what kind of
> load he was putting on that machine or if it was a development box that
> could crash occasionally and not hurt anything. The one I'm deploying
> needs to be more stable than than a dev box.
>
> I would prefer not to drop a Linux distro in to our server mix just for
> what this customer wants this server for unless I have to.
>
> TIA,
>
> Gerald
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