On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Jerry Goldstein wrote:
> On 9/15/01 12:12 PM, Stew Benedict spoketh:
>
> >For the actual kernel, you only need either kernel or kernel-smp, and
> >maybe lm_utils. The headers, source etc. you would need for development,
> >but not just to run with that kernel. For those you would use -U, and if
> >you wanted to go back you would need to uninstall and re-install the old
> >ones. I would try the kernel binary first alone, then decide how to
> >proceed.
> >
> >SMP freezes right out the gate or in use? I have no way of testing the
> >SMP, as I have only uniprocessor machines. I have run the SMP on my
> >machine, but am certainly not using it effectively. Does 2.4.4-6.2 freeze
> >also?
>
>
> I tried the 2.4.4-6.3 SMP kernel. It behaved better than the 6.2 SMP
> kernel, but still had problems with gFTP within the KDE shell. This time,
> it didn't freeze, but just quit as soon as I hit return after entering a
> URL. I didn't install the lm_utils at this time. Could that be the
> problem? I also noted during booting that it took a while for the Finding
> Module Dependencies step to finish. This goes very quickly when using the
> 2.4.4 6.2 non SMP kernel.
>
Just took a look, forgot what lm_utils was - chances are it's totally
useless on PPC - it used for hardware monitoring on Intel boards. I build
it because I'm able too, and maybe some of the IBM machine may use it.
Sounds like maybe gFTP has an SMP problem? I haven't really used that
app, but you don't get that behavior with a uniprocessor kernel right?
If it was the first boot, the "finding module dependencies" may take
longer, after that they really shouldn't change. Did it generate errors,
or just took a while?
Stew Benedict
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