Is SMP stability any better?

[WipeOut]

Ian Cameron wrote:

> Also in the 'not quite everyone crowd'...; definately not the latest h/w:
> Compaq Proliant 3000, 2x pIII 550, 3x 18.2Gb RAID
>
> Linux *hostname* 2.4.22-1.2149.nptlsmp #1 SMP Wed Jan 7 12:51:51 EST 
> 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> 11:49:08  up 33 days, 21:29,  2 users,  load average: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00
> 85 processes: 84 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states:  cpu    user    nice  system    irq  softirq  iowait    idle
>           total    0.0%    0.0%    2.0%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%  197.8%
>           cpu00    0.0%    0.0%    1.3%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%   98.6%
>           cpu01    0.0%    0.0%    0.7%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%   99.2%
> Mem:   643516k av, 631100k used, 12416k free, 0k shrd, 107148k buff
>       296520k active, 213236k inactive
> Swap:  2097096k av, 584k used, 2096512k free, 338052k cached
>
> Not under any real load, but have banged away at it off and on (vsftp 
> and apache), have a couple of NFS mounts from another file server and 
> a Samba share (for one day now). The box is in the data center so I 
> have left root logged into the desktop (Gnome) with a terminal window 
> and Mozilla open.
>
> This box is destined to take over http and ftp duties from a pII RH7.1 
> (1:57pm  up 195 days,  6:15,  3 users,  load average: 0.18, 0.25, 
> 0.10) eventually and as I push more users towards it to up the loading 
> we'll see what happens. As far as the kernel and updates goes I will 
> let it run as long as it is happy. This is a custom install somewhere 
> between a  server and workstation.
>
> ===========
> Ian Cameron
> Knoll, Inc
>
>
>
Is this system a minimum install with the specific software added on? or 
is it a desktop or workstation install?

It seems minimum installs are stable which the others are not..