On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Mark Post wrote: > Ok, it's not too often I get to gloat about anything, so I'm taking the > opportunity as it's presented itself... :) > > >From dmesg: > -snip- > CPU3: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz stepping 07 > Total of 4 processors activated (22321.56 BogoMIPS). > -snip- > > # free > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 2061228 31820 2029408 0 4756 11408 > -/+ buffers/cache: 15656 2045572 > Swap: 497972 0 497972 > > > Now on to installing the rest of the software! >
There's someone else gloating, though in a more subdued way. Here is an extract from a post to the Hercules list: ================================= An x440 is a 1 to 8 way rack mounted Intel xeon box. I run SuSE for i386 on it. Here is a link to see the marketing stuff... http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/eserver/xseries/x440.html It is a NUMA type SMP box. The kernel I run uses the NUMA patches to linux 2.4. --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is an x440 ?? What arch directory does it use in the linux > source > tree ?? For ia32 we use the `cmpxchg' instruction for these type > of emulated instructions (machdep). Maybe, after looking how linux > does it for your machine I could write something similar. Also, > current cvs contains some more smp fixes, although Bernard van der > Helm is still experiencing some problems which I am still debugging. > > Thanks, > > Greg > > linuxs0c4 wrote: > > When I define several CPUs to my guest machine. At least 4 but the more > > the worse I see; > > IEE107I THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE IS ISSUED BY SYNCHRONOUS WTO/R SERVICE ========================== http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/eserver/xseries/x440.html Some chap @ibm. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
