Stability of RELENG_5_4 with dual Xeon

Steven Hartland killing at multiplay.co.uk
Mon May 16 04:08:19 PDT 2005


Not had any problems at all with RELENG_5_X run over 100 machines
on it.

    Steve
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew McNaughton" <andrew at scoop.co.nz>

> 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?



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