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.




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Cheers
John.

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