Dual AMD MP unstable under heavy load when smp is active

Danny Fullerton northox at mantor.org
Fri Mar 7 17:35:56 UTC 2008


Hi guys,

Just to let you known upgrading to 7.0 effectively fixed the problem.

Thanks for your help and for 7 years of hard work on the SMP
optimization.  ;)

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Danny Fullerton
Mantor Organization
www.mantor.org


Daniel Ponticello wrote:
> Hi Danny,
> i made some tests with FreeBSD 7.0 Prerelease in december and the problem
> is no longer present.
> The crash and seg fault you see seems to be related to ACPI/SMP implementation
> of freebsd6.
> The problem is also present and more evident with VMWare virtual hardware.
> No problems if you are using Intel hardware.
> 
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> 
> Daniel


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