Re: Linux 2.0 and SMP (intel)

Chris Green (bccl@peg.apc.org)
Sun, 30 Jun 1996 18:04:19 +1000


>
> ON monday I'm expecting shipment of a Micron Power Server (2 P133,
> 64MB RAM, PCI/EISA). Does anyone have experience running linux 2.0 on
> a machine like this?

Yep, I'm running it on a dual 133MHz Pentium system, 2x2G SCSI HD's and
64MB RAM - has worked fine since the late 3.80 kernels with SMP on.
Rebuilt kernel the other day to turn on SMP profiling, worked first time
:)

> Do I need to do anything special for SMP. I
> plan on using it for a Apache machine running Apache, NFS and a bit of
> X. Anything I need to watch out for?

Exactly what I do with mine, so can't see you're likely to have any
problems at all!

Regards
Chris Green
Snr Software Specialist Research & Development
Brisbane City Council