My workplace just got a bunch of dual athlon 64 x2 machines that we're loading
centos 4.x on and using to replace our older Sun machines. Unfortunately, we
get wierd behaviors when running the SMP kernels. Bursty keyboard interrupts
(you can be typing just fine when suddenly the system speeds
*which* smp kernel? The one that comes with centos? centos4? (which
comes with a patched 2.6.9 kernel)
*what* are the h/w configs?
maybe some bootlog love?
Does Monarch (or the mobo vendor) have a BIOS upgrade, by chance?
jim
Charles Lockhart wrote:
My workplace just got a bunch of
hmmmhard to answer...I just downloaded the network install for debian 64
and it just worked. Same for RHEL 64.
Default bios config using the onboard tyan SATA controller to a single
drive. More detail once I can boot up the machine...everything is torn apart
in my lab as I move.
/brian chee
So the code for ZFS has been released and is Open, but not Free (its
licensed under the SCDL).
For those of you wondering what ZFS is, here's a collection of links.
Its all pro-Sun, of course.
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/bmc?entry=welcome_to_zfs
A port to linux is being investigated:
http://www.coss.fi/openmind/presentations
http://www.paulgraham.com/web20.html
