6.0 release date and stability

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Mon Oct 17 19:13:32 PDT 2005


At 09:56 PM 17/10/2005, Brett Glass wrote:
>At 06:38 PM 10/17/2005, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
> >Two of our scanners in the cluster are SMP boxes-- dual core AMD 
> running in 386 mode and an Intel D830.
> >Both work really well, and take quite a load against them network 
> / cpu wise.  Lots of threads running.
> >Also have FAST_IPSEC clients and a server running RELENG_6 from 
> around Beta 1.
>
>How is AMD in AMD64 mode?

Dont know.  I only run it in i386 mode and its fast and runs VERY 
cool.  The reaction to touching the Intel D830 heat sinks (CPU or MB) 
are typically "Aeeiiiii!!!! It burns It burns!!!!", the reaction to 
touching the AMD is typical, "Is this thing on ?"  Head to head, the 
3800 X2 beats out the D830 for spam / virus scanning in our setup as well.


>One thing we're looking at doing is deploying some single-core AMD64s.
>Some of the motherboards use the NVidia NForce chipsets, so we need 
>to know if the nve driver works

I have seen lots of problem reports with the nve.  A board that works 
well for us and fits nicely in a 2U (probably with the right heat 
sink a 1U) is the ECS 480M.
(http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?DetailID=506&MenuID=90&LanID=0) 

It uses the ATI chipset.  Disk and NIC are supported.  Onboard NIC is 
a Realtek (rl driver) which is pretty bug / problem free.


Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ (1999.78-MHz 686-class CPU)
   Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x20fb1  Stepping = 1
   Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT>
   Features2=0x1<SSE3>
   AMD Features=0xe2500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,LM,3DNow+,3DNow>
   AMD Features2=0x3<LAHF,CMP>
   Multicore: 2 physical cores

pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 19.2 (no driver attached)
pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 20.0 (no driver attached)
atapci0: <ATI IXP400 UDMA133 controller> port 
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xfd00-0xfd0f at device 20.1 on pci0
ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 20.3 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 20.4 on pci0
pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xdf00-0xdfff mem 
0xfddff000-0xfddff0ff irq 22 at device 5.0 on pci2
miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0
rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0
rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
rl0: Ethernet address: 00:14:2a:1a:49:f6

pumice6]# atacontrol mode ad0
current mode = UDMA100
[pumice6]# atacontrol info ata0
Master:  ad0 <ST340014A/3.06> ATA/ATAPI revision 6
Slave:       no device present
[pumice6]#

         ---Mike 



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