Hello,
part of this posting has appeared in linux-kernel list earlier
today, and I thought I could ask more hard-ware specific questions here.
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I am currently running an out-of-the box RedHat6.0
(no kernel rebuilds/upgrades) on a single Pentium 150 w 96Mb/3.2Gb
My upgrade is motivated by two factors
o our lab has a number of spare Pentium II/350 processors donated
from Intel and the multi-proc. motherboards do not look too much
pricier than uni-proc. ones.
o the latest gcc/g++2.95.1 (http://egcs.cygnus.com) can finally
compile my C++ code and I am not anymore confined to SunPro CC
or MSVC++
I've been told that gcc2.95 may miscompile recent kernels, so I am
trying to find kernel-smp*rpm. The latest I could find were 2.2.5-22
at rpmfind.net. Are there any more up-to-date RPMs? (that one is signed
by RedHat, w/o an email address). Was the SPM performance improved
considerably after 2.2.5 ? (I see that a bug was solved that kicked in
with some networking cards... I think I have such a card, but it's not
used since I have no Ethernet connection).
I've been told that there aren't 4-processor motherboards
for Pentium II, so I went to motherboard.com and found [only] two
reasonable-looking PCI motherboards.
ABIT BP6 ($150) http://www.mssi.com/bp62.htm
IWILL DBD100 ($185) http://www.mssi.com/dbd100.htm
BP6 has DMA66 that I don't really need it with an old hard drive.
OTOH, it only has 3 SDRAM slots, while DBD100 has four.
DBD100 claims to be tunable to 133Mhz, but BP6 is "jumperless"
(everything is controlled by software)
any comments on these? are there other good ones?
thanks,
Igor
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