On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> I'm not sure if I should just chalk this up to "flaky hardware" or
> whether it's something to do with Mandrake or what. Here's the
> situation: I have a dual-ppro 200 (only one processor running right
> now... SMP locks the machine up tight on boot-up!) with 192 megs of
> ram. Mandrake detects the ram just fine. I also have an Advansys
> ABP-940UA Ultra SCSI card hooked into a 8.5 GB SCSI drive, but I boot
> off an 850 mb IDE.
> I normally have to boot twice before I can get a reasonable Bogomips
> count. Typically I get about 1% of the "normal" bogomips at first
> boot and full bogomips after I reboot. For example, right now I think
> it's running at 192 Bogomips. I realize this isn't a REAL measure of
> performance, but it's close enough for me, as at 2 bogomips as I had
> at first boot, the system was CRAWLING!
>
> Any ideas???
Does your motherboard support the MP 1.4 specification? I believe the SMP
kernel requires that your motherboard follow the Intel MP 1.4 specification.
I have an option in my BIOS to switch from 1.1 to 1.4
I run a dual P-Pro with 2 UW SCSI drives. This system runs for weeks on end.
Since going with Mandrake, I have never had a single hard lockup. I've had
applications with memory leaks use up all the memory. All I had to do was kill
X off and everything was back to normal.
Darin -
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Cthulhu for President in 2000 - Why settle for the lesser evil????
