[Sunhelp] Dual CPU SPARC20

Mike Gracy (Ghost Rider) sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Mon Nov 13 15:30:35 CST 2000


I ran the same combo you are running on my SS10 for a while (had nothing but
trouble-compiles were usually buggy and phantom memory leaks abounded), but
I finally broke down and bid on a matched pair of Ross 150s.  Now my SS10
just ROCKS!  I'm personally for the matched set of processors situation.
You can find some of the older ones pretty cheap on eBay.

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Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] Dual CPU SPARC20
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Alan Robinson giggled and wrote:
Actually it is possible in some cases to run CPUs with different speeds. I
have been using an SM71/SM61 combination in an SS10 for several months now.
The only problem that I have seen is with the CDE image viewer which crashes
when both CPUs are enabled (via psradm). Outside of that little glitch it
works quite well. As Bill points out the question is how reliable a
non-matched set will be. Not every combination works. Anyone else have
experience with non-matched CPUs?
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