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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