The version of UNIX I am accustomed to comes with SMP enabled by default. I didn't realize there was an SMP package for Debian until I had started the kernel build. Like you, I didn't read everything I should have before I dived in. Since I had linked in everything I wanted in addition to SMP I let the build run to completion. With 8 processors and 4GB memory (and support for 8GB), I assumed the compile would run faster than that even though it was only using one processor. I guess certain concessions were made that degraded uni-processor performance in the machine's architecture.
No flames are justified. All of us have different levels of expertise and expectations. You think X configuration is fun on servers, try it on an older laptop. Thanks Rick -----Original Message----- From: Nick Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 12:38 PM To: Rick Kelley Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Woody is bootable? (was: Sarge is bootalbe?) No problem with the kernel afaik: I didn't build it though. After forcing the upgrade from potato and spending hours tweeking X, ALSA, and practically everything else which wasn't quite working, it seemed to go perfectly. Things went faster with the stock SMP kernel than the single processor one, and I guess there may be some advantage to building a custom one, but I didn't bother being so relieved at getting the potato->sid transition going at all. With make -j (not on the kernel, but on a reasonably sized project I work on from time to time) the machines really fly. Mind you, with 2GB RAM, you'd expect reasonable performance. Next time I'll read the manual. Thanks for being patient, Rick and Mike, I deserve a good flame for that piece of stupidity! The only time I've been seen the behaviour you describe w.r.t. strange slow-downs, Rick, it was to do with a bizarre series of coincidences to do with an automounted filesystem and conflicting IP addresses. Always had pretty close to pinned CPU utilization. Nick/ Rick Kelley wrote: >Nick, > >I had a similar install problem on my SMP Pentium 3 Xeon system with SCSI >disks. I resolved the problem by booting from the "vanilla" CD. Once the >system was booted, I installed from the "generic" CD. I don't recall the >logic or steps that led to that solution but it worked. > >On a different note, it took 18 hours to link the kernel once the system was >installed. Response times were incredibly slow. I installed atsar and >about 40% of the processor was being used with the system idle. Once the new >kernel was installed with SMP enabled, I could build a kernel in a couple of >minutes and idle processor usage dropped to nil. I'm curious if you saw the >same phenomenon on your MP system. > >Thanks >Rick > >-----Original Message----- >From: Nick Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 4:14 AM >To: [email protected] >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Woody is bootable? (was: Sarge is bootalbe?) > > >Colin, > >I completely agree with everything you wrote. > >However, the last time I tried to install from a woody boot CDRom, I >couldn't. It wouldn't mount SCSI disks so you couldn't get anywhere >unless / was on an IDE device. Perhaps there is/was a way around this, >but I failed to find it. Since our default machines here are dual-AMD >with SCSI disks running Sid, I had to install Potato and dist-upgrade >with all the pain which has been reported by others. > >Since I am (a) a big debian fan, (b) not aversed to a bit of hacking >(much better than marking reports!) and (c) don't have any >enterprise-critical machines to look after, I didn't think much of it. >But perhaps SCSI support à la Sid being absent on Woody might turn off a >few new potential converts who do not have mass-market machines. > >Sorry, I should have brought this up before (while Woody was still >testing), but better late than never. > >Nick/ > > >Colin Watson wrote: > > > >>On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 01:00:37PM +0200, Claudio wrote: >> >> >> >> >>>I downloaded Sarge but i can't install booting from CD and i can't install >>>it upgrading on Potato. >>>It says: >>>"Internal Error, couldn't configure a pre-depend". >>>Plese help me, because i don't know i must to do. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Please read the answers already given to you multiple times! >> >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0209/msg00241.html >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0209/msg00242.html >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing-0209/msg00014.html >> >>Do not try to install sarge directly yet, as it won't work. Upgrade from >>potato to woody, following the instructions in the release notes at >>http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/. Then consider upgrading to >>sarge. >> >>If you have problems upgrading to woody, please post the full text of >>the error messages you get. Please don't just post the same message yet >>again. >> >>Regards, >> >> >> >> >> > >-- >Dr Nick Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Centre for Music Technology http://cmt.gla.ac.uk/ >Dept of Electronics and Electrical Eng http://www.elec.gla.ac.uk/ >The University of Glasgow http://www.gla.ac.uk > >European Copyright Directive/Software Patenting: you stand to lose your >freedom. >http://cmt.gla.ac.uk/Info/swpatents.html > >Please take our survey about how the arts can be delivered over the >internet! >http://cmt.gla.ac.uk/OD-Survey Tell your friends! Thanks! >>From the OpenDrama team. > > > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? 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