[SunRescue] HOW useful 690/MP

[Mark Price]

You should definately consider going to RedHat 6.0 which uses the linux
kernel 2.2 series, it has MUCH better SMP support.  SMP support in the
linux 2.0 series kernel was not intended for real production use.

Mark

On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Keith Low wrote:

> Hi
> 
>     I just installed RedHat 5.2 Linux on a Dual-Pentium PC(No laughing please,
> it is to help out a SPARCStation 1+ webserving), and it didn't support the 2
> processors until the kernel was re-compiled, but I am not sure if the Sparc
> version is the same. I am running RH 5.2 on the SS 1+ as well.
> 
> 
> Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> > I don't believe that there is a "minimum" processor for MP, per say.  I'm
> > reasonably sure that the S/Linux port runs MP, but quite so sure about the
> > Sun 68K based machines.  In any event, just try booting from one of the
> > disks, and see if it recognizes two processors on boot.  The RedHat boot
> > disk should work well for this, you can just watch the boot messages going
> > by telling how many processors Linux sees.  (Note that this isn't Sparc
> > Linux, because Sparc is a trademark or some such bull)  I haven't tried it
> > myself, since I'm teaching myself SunOS/Solaris.
> >         Greg
> 
> 
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