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Proliant servers ?
user name
2006-06-15 14:24:23
Hi

I'm planning to replace our mailhub with a new HP Proliant
380
with 2 or 4 processors.

I warmly welcome any feedback on admins that runs FreeBSD
SMP
6.1 on that kind of machines with scsi disks.

Thanks
-- 
Cordialement
Frank Bonnet

  To be or not to be  -- Shakespeare
  To do is to be      -- Nietzsche
  To be is to do      -- Kant
  Do be do be do      -- Sinatra
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Proliant servers ?
user name
2006-06-15 15:02:41
> I'm planning to replace our mailhub with a new HP
Proliant 380
> with 2 or 4 processors.

I have an HP Netserver 6000r, 4x700mhz, 4GB RAM, 4x80GB scsi
disks.  
It will take up to six procs. It's presently running
FreeBSD 5.4  
without incident

It runs beautifully, and I'm sure it would take 6.1 without
trouble  
at all.

> I warmly welcome any feedback on admins that runs
FreeBSD SMP
> 6.1 on that kind of machines with scsi disks.
>
> Thanks
> -- 
> Cordialement
> Frank Bonnet
>
>  To be or not to be  -- Shakespeare
>  To do is to be      -- Nietzsche
>  To be is to do      -- Kant
>  Do be do be do      -- Sinatra
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Proliant servers ?
user name
2006-06-15 16:44:00
David King wrote:
>> I'm planning to replace our mailhub with a new HP
Proliant 380
>> with 2 or 4 processors.
> 
> I have an HP Netserver 6000r, 4x700mhz, 4GB RAM, 4x80GB
scsi disks. It 
> will take up to six procs. It's presently running
FreeBSD 5.4 without 
> incident
> 
> It runs beautifully, and I'm sure it would take 6.1
without trouble at all.
> 
>> I warmly welcome any feedback on admins that runs
FreeBSD SMP
>> 6.1 on that kind of machines with scsi disks.

Similarly, I have 6000r with 6 CPUs, 4x18Gb disks and 2Gb
RAM running 
6.0-STABLE (as of February 2006). I haven't seen anything
suspicious in 
any shape or form.

You might have to disable ACPI (or APCI, I can never
remember: the thing 
that does power management) explicitly, but that's probably
a pretty 
sane thing to do on a server.

I'm running 4.10 and 5.2.1 on a number of G3 DL-380s with
HP SmartArray 
RAID setups and no real problems either, apart from cruft
slowly 
building up (but hardly the fault of the OS). I would be
pretty 
confident about installing 6.1 on them (and I probably will
this summer).

DAvid
-- 
Much of the propaganda that passes for news in our own
society is given 
to immobilising and pacifying people and diverting them from
the idea 
that they can confront power. -- John Pilger

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Proliant servers ?
user name
2006-06-15 18:17:37
> Hi
>
> I'm planning to replace our mailhub with a new HP
Proliant 380
> with 2 or 4 processors.
>
> I warmly welcome any feedback on admins that runs
FreeBSD SMP
> 6.1 on that kind of machines with scsi disks.

I currently have 2 Proliant DL360 G1 servers running as my
mailhub 
machines.  Dual P-III 800Mhz, dual 18GB SCSI drives,
mirrored RAID-1 on 
built-in SMART Array controller, 768MB RAM.

They are running 6.1-STABLE, installed as 6.1-RELEASE boxes,
then source 
upgraded to STABLE via normal buildworld procedures.

I had to disable ACPI on original install, and keep it off
(there is an 
option under the installer where it asks you if you want to
keep it off 
for the future), otherwise it would hang immediately upon
trying to boot.

Aside from that, the install went normally, and I've had
zero problems 
since.  The RAID array works flawlessly, I had a drive blow
out on one 
machine, I just hot-swapped it with a new one, it rebuilt on
the fly, and 
no on ever noticed anything.  No reboot needed, which is the
way it should 
work.

The machines are currently running main DNS services, plus
Postfix with 
SpamAssassin, and are our primary MX border servers which
handle roughly 
30-40k messages per day.

Hope this helps.

-Gary

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> -- 
> Cordialement
> Frank Bonnet
>
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> To do is to be      -- Nietzsche
> To be is to do      -- Kant
> Do be do be do      -- Sinatra
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Proliant servers ?
user name
2006-06-15 19:56:05
Hi!

I have an HP DL 385 Proliant server (2 rack unit). Two
dual-core AMD
Opteron processor, 3 GB of RAM, four 72 GB hotswap SCSI disk
in RAID1
+0. 

Works fine with FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE.

You can find some pics here:
http://hup.hu
/old/images/hup/HUP/UJHUP/

dmesg output:

Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991,
1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All
rights
reserved.
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May  7 04:15:57 UTC 2006
    rootbloom.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP
ACPI APIC Table: <HP     00000083>
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality
0
CPU: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 275 (2205.02-MHz K8-class
CPU)
  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x20f12 
Stepping = 2

Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,AP
IC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2
,HTT>
  Features2=0x1<SSE3>
  AMD
Features=0xe2500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,LM,3DNow+,3DNow
>
  AMD Features2=0x2<CMP>
  Cores per package: 2
real memory  = 3221192704 (3071 MB)
avail memory = 3104718848 (2960 MB)
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs
 cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  1
 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID:  2
 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID:  3
MADT: Forcing active-low polarity and level trigger for SCI
ioapic0 <Version 1.1> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
ioapic1 <Version 1.1> irqs 24-27 on motherboard
ioapic2 <Version 1.1> irqs 28-31 on motherboard
ioapic3 <Version 1.1> irqs 32-35 on motherboard
ioapic4 <Version 1.1> irqs 36-39 on motherboard
kbd1 at kbdmux0
acpi0: <HP A05> on motherboard
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz
quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <32-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port
0x908-0x90b on acpi0
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
cpu1: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
cpu2: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
cpu3: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 3.0 on pci0
pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
ohci0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem
0xf7df0000-0xf7df0fff irq 19
at device 0.0 on pci1
ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb0: SMM does not respond, resetting
usb0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: AMD OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
ohci1: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem
0xf7de0000-0xf7de0fff irq 19
at device 0.1 on pci1
ohci1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb1: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb1: SMM does not respond, resetting
usb1: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: AMD OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
pci1: <base peripheral> at device 2.0 (no driver
attached)
pci1: <base peripheral> at device 2.2 (no driver
attached)
pci1: <display, VGA> at device 3.0 (no driver
attached)
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 4.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <AMD 8111 UDMA133 controller> port
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x2000-0x200f at device
4.1 on pci0
ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
pci0: <bridge> at device 4.3 (no driver attached)
pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
ciss0: <HP Smart Array 6i> port 0x5000-0x50ff mem
0xf7ef0000-0xf7ef1fff,0xf7e80000-0xf7ebffff irq 24 at device
4.0 on pci2
ciss0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
pci0: <base peripheral, interrupt controller> at
device 7.1 (no driver
attached)
pcib3: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 8.0 on pci0
pci3: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib3
bge0: <Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev.
0x2100> mem
0xf7ff0000-0xf7ffffff irq 28 at device 6.0 on pci3
miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
brgphy0: <BCM5704 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus0
brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX,
1000baseTX,
1000baseTX-FDX, auto
bge0: Ethernet address: 00:17:a4:3b:40:40
bge1: <Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev.
0x2100> mem
0xf7fe0000-0xf7feffff irq 29 at device 6.1 on pci3
miibus1: <MII bus> on bge1
brgphy1: <BCM5704 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus1
brgphy1:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX,
1000baseTX,
1000baseTX-FDX, auto
bge1: Ethernet address: 00:17:a4:3b:40:3f
pci0: <base peripheral, interrupt controller> at
device 8.1 (no driver
attached)
pcib4: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> on acpi0
pci4: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib4
pcib5: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 9.0 on pci4
pci5: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib5
pci4: <base peripheral, interrupt controller> at
device 9.1 (no driver
attached)
pcib6: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 10.0 on pci4
pci6: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib6
pci4: <base peripheral, interrupt controller> at
device 10.1 (no driver
attached)
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64
irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
sio0: <Standard PC COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4
flags 0x10 on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
fdc0: <floppy drive controller (FDE)> port 0x3f2-0x3f5
irq 6 drq 2 on
acpi0
fdc0: [FAST]
orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem
0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xcbfff,0xee000-0xeffff on isa0
ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem
0xa0000-0xbffff on
isa0
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (amr_linux,
0xffffffff8062a040, 0) error
6
acd0: CDROM <HL-DT-ST GCR-8240N/2.03> at ata0-master
PIO4
SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched!
SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched!
da0 at ciss0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <COMPAQ RAID 1  VOLUME OK> Fixed Direct Access
SCSI-0 device
da0: 135.168MB/s transfers
da0: 138919MB (284506560 512 byte sectors: 255H 32S/T
34866C)
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
bge0: link state changed to UP

Cheers,

On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 16:24 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote:

> I warmly welcome any feedback on admins that runs
FreeBSD SMP
> 6.1 on that kind of machines with scsi disks.

-- 
Micskó Gábor
HP APS, AIS, ASE
Szintézis Rt.
H-9023 Győr, Tihanyi Á. u. 2.
Tel: +36 96 502 221
Fax: +36 96 318 658
E-mail: gmicskoszintezis.hu
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