Re: Multiprocessor Reliability

["Aaron D. Turner" <aturner best com>]

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Recent kernels are pretty SMP safe- especially 2.1.x.  I notice that
you're also interested in a VA box.  I know that VA does quite a bit of
kernel tweaking to make the kernel run better on their hardware (patches
available on their site as well).  Word has it that one of the VA 4 way
Xeon boxes compiled a kernel in 45seconds.  I want one of those! :-)

If you stay with the VA provided kernels, I would expect to see excellent
performance/stability with SMP.

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On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, zeek wrote:

> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Does anyone have testomonials of linux on a multiprocessor box with the
> 2.0.x kernel? I've read the docs and am confused as to whether this is a
> good idea. /usr/src/linux/Documentation/SMP.txt says "experimental" and
> the 2.1.x kernels say the same. 


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