[techtalk] SMP on linux

[Jamie Walker]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 09:54:23PM -0700, Samantha Atkins wrote:

> screensaver wasn't SMP compatible or some such.  The machine doesn't get
> any heavy traffic.  Just personal use and a few friends grabbing stuff
> occassionally.  Oh, the box is running twin 466 mhz Celerons and scsi
> and IDE drives
> 
> 	So does anyone know what might be the gremlin?  Are there known bugs on
> SMP until 2.4 is out?  When this thing locks there is no trail.  No
> cores, no log entries, nothing.  

What motherboard is it running on? Many users running Celerons in SMP mode
are using Abit's BP6, and those reportedly had problems with the
motherboard chipset overheating, especially with SMP and an overclocked
bus.

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