Just spoke with the boss. My boss really "wants to run SMP". He's an
ill-informed business man and thinks that a single 3 ghz with 4 gb RAM
couldn't handle our mail server, which I believe it would have no problems
at all doing. 10,000 users isn't that many.
Either way, if hes set on SMP, then I either need to go to another *BSD
other than FreeBSD which wont have this problem (such as OpenBSD, although
do you know whether or not OpenBSD's SMP can support Dual Xeon's?) or
NetBSD. Otherwise, I have to go to linux or windows which I really don't
want to do at all.
Thanks again for your help.
Regards,
Matt
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Joe . wrote:
Can you live with just one processor? You would probably have much
better luck with SMP disabled.
Joe
On 6/28/05, Matt Juszczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,
Some of you have read my posts from the previous few days but I am really
stuck right now. Sorry if this is repeated information for anyone.
We're running FreeBSD at work on our main mail server, which is now
crashing 2 times per day. I need to find a new solution soon, or I could
risk losing my job which would really stink.
The machine itself is fine, and I know this because 1) I've tested the
memory and 2) This problem I am experiencing is occuring on more than one
machine.
OpenBSD is known for its stability, and I'm wondering what everyone's
opinion on stability would be with a SuperMicro Dual Xeon 3.06 ghz (SMP)
and 4 GM RAM, running postfix with LDAP and 10,000 users. If I can get a
stable system up and running I'll be really happy.
Apparently, there is something called a ttwakeup bug and there's some SMP
code problems in FreeBSD 5.4 that wasn't apparent in 4.11 (which is why
that runs stable for me) causing all these problems. I would hope that
with the branch off of OpenBSD these problems wouldn't exist in the OS.
Any responses would be appreciated :)
Regards,
Matt
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