On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:07:31PM -0700, Ronald Kumon wrote:
| I'm planning to put together an SMP Linux box and would like to get some
| recommendations for dual CPU motherboards. I'd like to get a motherboard
| that supports at least Pentium III CPUs. I'd appreciate both
| positive and negative reviews. Thoughts?
I've got a SuperMicro dual Slot1 board with two 700mhz P3's. Works
great.
Before this, I had an Abit BP6 with two Celeron 533's. Crashed
constantly. There was apparantly some sort of flaw in the 2.0 release
of the motherboard that Abit wasn't telling people about or
acknowledging, but they'd fix the board if you sent it to them.
I subscribed to the linux-abit list when I got it. It was full of
post after post after post with the same problem.
I fought with it for a month, then returned it and got the SuperMicro.
Much much better.
Maybe Abit has since fixed the problem, but Celeron's aren't so great
anymore anyways. I'm very happy with my 700mhz pIII's (these are the
256k L2 running at full cpu speed ones -- very nice.)
| Also, does anyone have suggestions for good books or web sites for
| multithreaded programming?
Linux isn't really known for it's threading support. If you're making
an SMP box just so you can play with threading, you might be happier
with *gasp* Solaris x86. I was never impressed with Solaris x86 when
I used it, but it's threading support is second to none (except maybe
Solaris sparc.)
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Doug McLaren, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Rehtob," said Pooh, as time inversed around him.
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