Sergey N. Voronkov
2006-Oct-11 20:48 UTC
Question on runing STABLE on old Intel SMP boards
Hello, Stable! Do anyone have running RELENG_6 branch on old Intel SMP boards? I have two of them: SCB2 and SDS2. Both are on RELENG_4_11 today. Thinking on proposed EoL of RELENG_4 branch I'v tryed to move one of them (SCB2) onto 6.1-RELEASE. That was very problematic - ethernet performance droped down to about 90 kB/s in installer (Installer was runned from boot floppy). Do you have any tips? (Like running with ACPI disabled ond so on). Best Regards, Sergey N. Voronkov, Sibitex JSC, Tyumen, Russia.
> Hello, Stable! > > Do anyone have running RELENG_6 branch on old Intel SMP boards? I have two > of them: SCB2 and SDS2. Both are on RELENG_4_11 today. Thinking on proposed > EoL of RELENG_4 branch I'v tryed to move one of them (SCB2) onto 6.1-RELEASE. > That was very problematic - ethernet performance droped down to about 90 > kB/s in installer (Installer was runned from boot floppy). > > Do you have any tips? (Like running with ACPI disabled ond so on). >read my ramblings in hackers/net :-) Subject: em blues at least you are not alone. danny> Best Regards, > > Sergey N. Voronkov, > Sibitex JSC, > Tyumen, Russia. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
Sergey N. Voronkov wrote:> Hello, Stable! > > Do anyone have running RELENG_6 branch on old Intel SMP boards? I have two > of them: SCB2 and SDS2. Both are on RELENG_4_11 today. Thinking on proposed > EoL of RELENG_4 branch I'v tryed to move one of them (SCB2) onto 6.1-RELEASE. > That was very problematic - ethernet performance droped down to about 90 > kB/s in installer (Installer was runned from boot floppy). >FWIW both these boards seem very similar to a Supermicro P3TDER that I'm running 6-STABLE on (however the ethernet adapter is fxp not em), and it works well (Serverworks HE-SL is a really good chipset). I guess you could try a different ethernet card - if the boards have enough free PCI slots for you to do this - they look like they have 1 more than the P3TDER does (i.e. 1)> Do you have any tips? (Like running with ACPI disabled ond so on). >Works with ACPI enabled - had to use hw.acpi.disable_on_reboot=1 to get the power button to switch the box off after halt tho. Cheers Mark
On Thursday 12 October 2006 05:47, you wrote:> Do you have any tips? (Like running with ACPI disabled ond so on).You could try setting kern.hz="100" in /boot/loader.conf. It lowers system overhead, especially on SMP systems. - Pieter
On Oct 11, 2006, at 11:47 PM, Sergey N. Voronkov wrote:> Do you have any tips? (Like running with ACPI disabled ond so on).my favorite trick on installing 6.x is to disable acpi timer, but I only do that if the machine hangs after probing the devices. otherwise it has booted up and worked on all my older machines too.