Testing SMP on PowerEdge 8450
"Thomas T. Thai" <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Mar 2004 03:54:11 -0600
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.devel.smp |
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I finally got around to trying to load NetBSD on the PowerEdge 8450. I downloaded NetBSD-1.6.2 ISO image. Installation went fine. Untarred the syssrc and tried to compile a new kernel with SMP support. I didn't see GENERIC.MP in the config directory. 1.6.2 doesn't support SMP does it? I should be getting -current? Is there a recent snapshot or ISO image? The snaps I saw from FTP were from 2003. Also, I have 24 Gig of RAM in the machine. The BIOS detected just fine. However, NetBSD-1.6.2 dmesg gave: total memory = 3839 MB avail memory = 3561 MB The other strange thing was when I tried to edit a file using vi. vi loaded and after editting, vi seemed to hang. Ctrl-Z and Ctrl-C didn't break it out. I ended up having to resent the machine. Once up again, I tried vi again on the same file and it worked fine. Thomas