begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 03:50:17PM -0700: > Stewart Stremler wrote: > > Does it still happen if you only enable one processor? > > Don't know yet as I haven't tried it. That will be the next thing to > try. Although I was hoping to avoid having to run my box on one cpu for > any length of time since that's not really what I paid money for but if > it helps solve the problem I guess I can put up with it for a few days. How about months?
At what point does it become 'not worth the trouble'? > > My dual-processor sparcstations have proven extremely unstable with > > a linux SMP kernel. They're far more stable if they run with just > > one processor enabled. > > My traditional x86 machines have been rock solid with SMP kernel. > Perhaps there are some bugs left to be worked out in the SMP code on the > lesser tested platforms. I think that this is indeed the case... > > -"No processors would be even more stable, but less useful" > > More secure too. Great minds think alike. -Stewart "Or is that 'grape mines sink alight'?" Stremler
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