it's fast.

[petef]

So I finally installed FreeBSD/amd64 on one of my Sun dual opteron workstations. Yum:

0 sparks(~) % dmesg | egrep -i 'cpu|memory|^da0

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[syntaxpc]

I just got myself a K8WE and am loving it!

I opted to go for the slower (i.e. cheaper) 244 processors, because I intend to upgrade to dual dual-core chips in the future ;-)

[evan@eris:evan](516)$ dmesg | egrep -i 'cpu|memory|^da0'
CPU 0: aperture @ 0 size 32 MB
Initializing CPU#0
Memory: 2053980k/2096256k available (3899k kernel code, 0k reserved, 1514k data, 220k init)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 1024K (64 bytes/line)
CPU 0(1) -> Node 0
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 1024K (64 bytes/line)
CPU 0(1) -> Node 0
CPU0: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 244 stepping 0a
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 1023.63 usecs.
Initializing CPU#1
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 1024K (64 bytes/line)
CPU 1(1) -> Node 1
checking TSC synchronization across 2 CPUs: passed.
Brought up 2 CPUs
CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
CPU1 attaching sched-domain:
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
acpi_processor-0484 [06] acpi_processor_get_inf: Error getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x2
acpi_processor-0484 [06] acpi_processor_get_inf: Error getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x3
Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed
[evan@eris:evan](517)$ uname -a
Linux eris 2.6.11-gentoo-r7 #4 SMP Thu May 19 14:43:52 EDT 2005 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 244 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux