Subject: Re: Announce: DEC AlphaServer 8400 is coming
To: None <port-alpha@NetBSD.org>
From: Brian L. Stuart <blstuart@bellsouth.net>
List: port-alpha
Date: 07/19/2005 21:15:41
In message <9855F536-EAC6-4472-BAA7-37687C3D09F9@shagadelic.org>, Jason Thorpe 
writes:
>It is possible that multi-cpu operation will, in fact, work on these  
>systems now.  When that FAQ was written, NetBSD did not have MP support.
>
>Of course, it could be broken, too :-)

Now that you mention it...  I've been running on a Digital
Server 5300 (the "NT only" version of the AS1200) for a
while now.  It seems pretty much rock solid when I'm
running a UP kernel.  But with a MP kernel, it sometimes
locks solid under heavy load.  My first reaction is a
race condition that leads to deadlock.  However, I haven't
had time to attempt any real diagnosis.

BLS