On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:02:26PM -0600, Conan C. Albrecht wrote: > Thanks for the response. At the risk of appearing a bit foolish, may I > ask another question? > > Given your response, if we installed Debian on the 7400 (given SMP > won't work currently), what would happen? Would the kernel simply use > 1 processor and 7 processors will sit dormant? Or will all 8 be used > but just not share memory?
If you install an SMP kernel, it will likely crash. If you install a UP kernel (built w/o SMP support), 7 CPUs would get ignored. > I've looked into SMP, but I want to be sure I have a definite answer > before I make recommendations for the machine. Donate one to ESIEE or some other place that has too many brilliant students who don't have anything better to do :^) Until VM stuff gets fixed, I'd keep running HPUX on the box. See "The Porting Center" for open source packages in swdepot format. grant > > Thanks in advance. > > Conan > > On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 02:52 PM, Grant Grundler wrote: > > >On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:43:46AM -0600, Conan C. Albrecht wrote: > >>We have an RP 7400 (N-class) server with 8 processors (2GB ram per > >>processor). It's a very nice machine and is only a few years old. :) > > > >Yes. it's a wonderful machine. 8 CPU. 6 GB/s backplane. 12 4X PCI > >slots. > > > >>Does anyone have experience installing Debian on the 7400 (N-class)? > >>The list archives show [EMAIL PROTECTED] successfully put it on a > >>smaller n-class in non-smp mode. We, of course, want to use all 8 > >>processors. > > > >IIRC, "non-equivalently mapped aliases" cause N-class and L-3000 > >to not operate in SMP mode correctly. Someone who understands parisc > >and linux vm would need suitable motivation to fix this. I can send > >trader joes organic dark chocolate if that would help. :^) > > > >BTW< this topic has been thoroughly discussed on parisc-linux > >mailing list. See www.parisc-linux.org mailing list archives. > > > >>The machine does not have a CD drive, floppy drive, but we've been > >>able > >>to at least start using the tiny FTP method. The kernel starts > >>loading > >>but then the machine freezes as if it is an incompatible kernel. We > >>haven't tried the newer 3.0 image yet. > > > >best to use the netinstall ISO from: > > ftp://ftp.parisc-linux.org/cd-images/testing/auto-isos/ > > > > http://pateam.esiee.fr/ > > > >grant > > > >>Any experiences or thoughts are appreciated. Thanks. > >> > >>------- > >>Conan C. Albrecht, Ph.D. > >>Brigham Young University > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>http://warp.byu.edu/ > >>PGP.sig? http://warp.byu.edu/PGPInfo.html > >> > > > > > > ------- > Conan C. Albrecht, Ph.D. > Brigham Young University > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://warp.byu.edu/ > PGP.sig? http://warp.byu.edu/PGPInfo.html > >
