Hi,
Up until 3 weeks ago, I was using a Quad-PPro 233 Compaq Professional
Workstation 8000. When booted in SMP, using the 2.2.14, I would get the
same symptoms, long delays, poor cpu performance, etc. Using xmms,
netscape, and other general purpose apps performed worse than an
equivalent UP. The only benefit I found was heavy compilations of src.
I eventually gave up, switching back to a UP PII.
One thing you could try is using a serial mouse per the FAQ. However
that solved nothing for me, and actually, I felt it responded worse than
the PS/2 mouse.
For the time being, the Compaq 8000 is going to be doing W2K ...
-paul
"Brian J. Conway" wrote:
>
> Forgive me for the obscure subject, but it's close to the truth. I
> recently upgraded from a single PIII-450 CPU on my Tyan Tiger 100
> motherboard to two PIII-550s, and am having some very strange problems
> with SMP. First off, here are the related specs:
>
> Tyan Tiger 100 S1832DL dual motherboard with the latest BIOS revision
> two PIII-550 CPUs of the same stepping number
> MPS revision 1.4 set in the BIOS (same results with 1.1)
> Kernel 2.2.15 with SMP and RTC enabled, APM disabled (same results with
> 2.4.0-test1 and 2.2.16-pre)
>
> when I use a kernel with just one CPU (as well as in Windows, sorry)
> everything is just fine, and mp3s take a whopping 3% CPU to play. Also,
> while playing Q3 or Unreal Tournament in an SMP kernel, both processors
> are running and supposedly using half the load each, even without having
> SMP enabled in the program (as neither support it, and only one
> processor should be doing the work), and my mouse freezes periodically
> for a second every 5 seconds or so when both processors max out while
> playing. I've tried removing various game configuration files, but the
> same thing still happens when I start them up again. I really have no
> idea why both processors start running crazy in SMP (kernel loads fine
> and detects everything). The system runs beautifully as uniprocessor,
> and I've verified all the hardware. I've included the dmesg output for
> sake of hopefully finding something. Of the people that use the Tiger
> 100, any advice on the BIOS revision number that you have working or any
> important settings? I've heard many commments about Tyan having
> beautiful hardware and shitty BIOSes. This is both strange and
> agravating. Any help would be greatly appreciated (and save a lot of
> money on a processor that's currently unused). Please help my runaway
> processors.
>
> Brian J. Conway
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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