[ Wednesday, January 26, 2000 ] Ted Milker wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 03:05:22PM -0800, Peter Bell wrote:
> > Those of you who report a stable BP6 box... try this to make sure......
> > recompile a kernel recursively in an endless loop... a quick and easy way
> > of doing so is to go into /usr/src/linux
> > and write the following c program:
>
> It's a lot easier to just type this at the command line:
>
> while [ 1 ]; do
> make clean
> make -j 8 bzImage
> done
while :;do make clean;make -j8 bzImage;done
> > BP6 motherboards halt consistently when the MPS is set to 1.1 instead of
> > 1.4 in the BIOS.
>
> What's MPS?
Multi-Processor Specification... Intel's spec on doing SMP, of which
the major revisions are 1.1 and 1.4, with no perf diff. (iirc) but
some added bells+whistles with 1.4
James
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