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> Does anyone have any wisdom they would care to share in regards to running
> Mandrake on a dual processor box?
>
> I am thinking in particular of dual-Athlon boxes, and in particular
> particular (!) of buying a Cybertron dual-Athlon box, and would like to
> know if this would be a stupid thing to do.
>
>   Doc Evans

Most of the servers I have in my server farm are dual Xeon Dell 2650's, with 
HyperThreading.
Mandrake works fine, but you will need to get the _latest_ 9.1 kernel if you 
want to avoid IRQ routing issues (meaning you get a big drop in performance 
since only one processor is handling interrupts...)

Mark.

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Mark Watts
Senior Systems Engineer
QinetiQ TIM
St Andrews Road, Malvern
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