[SunRescue] Re: Trolls and MP on rescued suns

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rnovak at indyramp.com [mailto:rnovak at indyramp.com]
> 
> I'm actually pondering running SuSE 7.0 on a SS20 with a pair of
> hypersparcs. The last time I tried Linux on MP was an older 
> RedHat (5.2?)
> on a dual-SM100 600MP, and it didn't work at all (at least 
> not with a MP
> kernel... was fairly solid with UP). 
> 
> Has anyone played with SuSE or newer Redhat on dual systems? 
> I'll suggest
> the 600MP with SM100 since those are often rescued (try to 
> get this back
> somewhere near the topic of the list), although if anything I'm more
> likely to put the 600MPs out to be rescued by another good home soon.

Ah, the times before 2.2.x, when SPARC support sucked hard.  I don't think I
had anything running a 2.0.x kernel MP that worked properly.  I'm running RH
6.2 (upgraded from 6.1, upgraded from 6.0, upgraded from 5.2), and it works
just dandy.  xemacs and perl are the only real work that I do on there, but
that's enough for now.  It's very stable, but I'll probably be putting
Solaris back on there for a bit, at least until Anton finished adding DMA
support to the esp SCSI driver.  My machine is an SS20, 128MB, dual 4GB
disks, dual SM41s, CG6FB.  It's not fast, but I've let it churn on big
compiles and RPM rebuilds for upwards of 10 hours, never saw anything
flakey.  Oh, except that the DBRI module sometimes will load, other times
not.  Sound doesn't concern me much.  Later,
	Greg