Stability of RELENG_5_4 with dual Xeon

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 05:35:36PM +1200, Andrew McNaughton wrote:
> 
> I'd be interested to hear people's recent experiences with Dual Xeons 
> under load with SMP on and HTT off.
> 
> A while back there were stability problems with Dual Xeon machines.  I've 
> got one of these in production with SMP turned off for the time being.  I 
> figure at some point things are stable enough to enable the extra 
> processor safely, but I don't have a spare machine for testing safely.
> 
> I gather there are still problems with Dual Xeon with both SMP and HTT 
> turned on, but that turning HTT off helps.  So the question is how stable 
> is that configuration?

I'm not aware of any problems..are you sure weren't fixed long ago, or
were due to e.g. outdated BIOSes or buggy hardware?

Kris
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