[H-GEN] Linux and SMP

[David Jericho]

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On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 03:02:12PM +1000, Frank Brand wrote:
> Can anyone running multiple processors give me some feedback as to how
> SMP is working on late versions of Linux. Is it stable? Does it require
> more work? Are there any tricky things I should know?

We use dual processor machines here almost exclusively for our Linux based 
servers. They run like a dream.

The late 2.2 kernels and the 2.4 kernels both have SMP enabled by default.

It's no longer a case of futz around with kernels until you find one that 
is stable. It seems to be the general case nowdays that if you have an SMP 
Linux box and it's unstable, you've got dodgey hardware.

> I imagine it is still not enabled by default in standard kernels and it
> would be necessary to recompile a kernel with SMP enabled. Is this so?

This only really applies to architectures other than Intel nowdays.

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