I picked up a N440BX mobo with at PII/350 in it.  I had a PII/450 laying
around so I put the 450 in slot 0 and the 350 in slot 1.  I thought the bios
would figure out or let me set different speeds for each cpu, but no.  So I
set it to match the 450.

For a day now I've been running 2.0_BETA on it with multiple builds in
pkgsrc (a simple way to generate a load on the system).  For 24 hours now of
consistent loads over "2" it has chugged right along.

Is this an indication that it  will be a reliable box over the haul?  Is
there a better way to see if she'll tank?  Does the dmesg show anything that
would make this a bad setup?

Thanks,

peter


vabox# dmesg
NetBSD 2.0_BETA (GENERIC.MP) #1: Tue Jul  6 01:29:14 CDT 2004
        
peter@gvlsite:/builds/netbsd-2-0/i386/obj/builds/netbsd-2-0/src/sys/arch/i38
6/compile/GENERIC.MP
total memory = 255 MB
avail memory = 242 MB
BIOS32 rev. 0 found at 0xfd824
mainbus0 (root)
mainbus0: Intel MP Specification (Version 1.1) (INTEL    N440BX      )
cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 1 (boot processor)
cpu0: Intel Pentium II (686-class), 448.90 MHz, id 0x652
cpu0: features 183fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR>
cpu0: features 183fbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX>
cpu0: features 183fbff<FXSR>
cpu0: I-cache 16 KB 32B/line 4-way, D-cache 16 KB 32B/line 4-way
cpu0: L2 cache 512 KB 32B/line 4-way
cpu0: ITLB 32 4 KB entries 4-way, 2 4 MB entries fully associative
cpu0: DTLB 64 4 KB entries 4-way, 8 4 MB entries 4-way
cpu0: calibrating local timer
cpu0: apic clock running at 99 MHz
cpu0: 32 page colors
cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 0 (application processor)
cpu1: starting
cpu1: Intel Pentium II (686-class), 448.88 MHz, id 0x652
cpu1: features 183fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR>
cpu1: features 183fbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX>
cpu1: features 183fbff<FXSR>
cpu1: I-cache 16 KB 32B/line 4-way, D-cache 16 KB 32B/line 4-way
cpu1: L2 cache 512 KB 32B/line 4-way
cpu1: ITLB 32 4 KB entries 4-way, 2 4 MB entries fully associative
cpu1: DTLB 64 4 KB entries 4-way, 8 4 MB entries 4-way
...