[9fans] Plan 9 on large systems..

[9fans] Plan 9 on large systems..

[mirtchov]

Back in the day Linux was young and relatively non-bloated there was
great excitement when people were able to boot it on large SMP
systems.  I remember being in awe looking at a bootlog from a 16-way
Alpha machine.  Now, Plan 9 has ran on large SMPs since forever (an
8-way SGI still runs in BL, right?), but recently has fallen into the
hands of slow, outdated hardware.  That's why I was so excited when I
could boot a big Compaq Proliant 8-way SMP as a cpu server on
ucalgary's network.  Is this the biggest Plan 9 has ran on?  How about
16- and 32-processor machines?

enjoy the log (the machine has 4 GB of RAM, I've limited that to 1.6): andrey

Plan 9
cpu0: 700MHz GenuineIntel P6 (cpuid: AX 0x06A1 DX 0x383FBFF)
ELCR: 8C20
cpu1: 700MHz GenuineIntel P6 (cpuid: AX 0x06A1 DX 0x383FBFF)
cpu2: 700MHz GenuineIntel P6 (cpuid: AX 0x06A1 DX 0x383FBFF)
cpu3: 700MHz GenuineIntel P6 (cpuid: AX 0x06A1 DX 0x383FBFF)
cpu4: 700MHz GenuineIntel P6 (cpuid: AX 0x06A1 DX 0x383FBFF)
cpu5: 700MHz GenuineIntel P6 (cpuid: AX 0x06A1 DX 0x383FBFF)
cpu6: 700MHz GenuineIntel P6 (cpuid: AX 0x06A1 DX 0x383FBFF)
cpu7: 700MHz GenuineIntel P6 (cpuid: AX 0x06A1 DX 0x383FBFF)
#l0: i82557: 10Mbps port 0x3000 irq 15: 00508BF98E1E
#l1: i82557: 100Mbps port 0x3020 irq 15: 00508BF98E1F
oui 5043 phyno 1
oui 5043 phyno 1
#l2: i82543: 1000Mbps port 0xF7BE0000 irq 5: 0002A542E64E
ioapicirq: can't find bus type 12
#l3: i82543: 1000Mbps port 0xF7EE0000 irq 15: 0002A542E4D6
no match
390346 free pages, 1561384K bytes, 2201384K swap
root is from (il, tcp)[tcp]: miistatus 2
miistatus 2
lproc status ok
ctrl 1B401A49
version...time...
sysname: octarine

init: starting /bin/rc
octarine# cat /dev/swap
404/390346 memory 0/160000 swap
octarine# cat /dev/sysstat
          0        1540       35698         498         294           0           0           0          99           0
          1        1484       17027         503         321           0           0           0          99           0
          2        1609       17123         608         470           0           0           0          99           0
          3        1566       17149         716         504           0           0           0          99           0
          4        1549       17159         666         461           0           0           0          99           0
          5        1622       17190         461         320           0           0           0          99           0
          6        1601       17339         511         362           0           0           0          99           0
          7        1654       17066         494         348           0           0           0          99           0
octarine#