redhat detecting too many cpus?

Barry L. Kline blkline at attglobal.net
Wed Jan 11 23:21:01 UTC 2006


Gavin McDonald wrote:
> I've got ~ 15 machines with dual Hyper-threaded CPUs (some Intel, some
> AMD64,) and all run RHEL ES 3.5 with no CPU-related problems. 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Gavin McDonald


... and I had one IBM x335 with a single Xeon that would randomly lock 
up whenever the SMP kernel ran on it (RHEL 3).  Booting the UNI kernel 
fixed (or at least sidestepped) the problem.

RHEL 4 has been running flawlessy on the SMP kernel since I upgraded the 
box.

Barry




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