Subject: Re: Which version for a stable SMP
To: Jean-Luc Wasmer <jl.netbsd@wasmer.ca>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/16/2002 20:15:18
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 01:40:23PM -0500, Jean-Luc Wasmer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to enable SMP but I'm not sure which version of NetBSD to download (NetBSD-1.6
> vs NetBSD-1-6-RELEASE, other ?).
> It seems that many people have problems with SMP.
> The box is a dual PIII with hardware SCSI RAID (Adaptec 2100S).
I have almost stable (a box paniced this week-end after ~30 days of use
in a quite heavy fork/exec/exit usage, mrtg says it average 1 fork per second)
1.6-STABLE MP system, so I would recomment that.
You'll have to rebuild a kernel from patched sources though:
cvs co syssrc/sys
cd syssrc/sys/arch/i386
cvs up -dPA -r i386mp_plus16_stable
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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