[K12OSN] dual Xeon and FC1

["Terrell Prudé, Jr."]

Someone named Mella on the list had to compile her own kernel, I believe 
from Linus's official source (http://www.kernel.org/), but she said that 
after that, things were simply peachy.

--TP

cliebow at downeast.net wrote:

>i know i had to revert to redhat 9 kernel to support smp on my fc1 box..chuck
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>>Now you really have me worried, though!
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>>My new server is coming with 12GB RAM. . .
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>>I really need so info here, guys!
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>>What is the RAM issue and what is the possibility of the Dual Xeons 
>>working?
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>>DS
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>>On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Shawn Powers wrote:
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>>>Doug Simpson wrote:
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>>>>How does FC1 work with dual processors?
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>>>>which flavor of linux I put on it.
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>>>Doug, I'm in the same boat.  My dual-xeon servers should arrive next 
>>>week -- and I'm torn as to what I should do.  (I also have the 6GB of 
>>>RAM issue on them too, but that's another story about kernel stability...)
>>>
>>>I also have a couple quad-xeon (only 500mhz each) that I am going to use 
>>>for web/email/squid services in my DMZ.  I'm really concerned about SMP 
>>>abilities there.
>>>
>>>There's always a mixed bag of results from folks with the SMP kernels 
>>>and FC1.  Is FC2 void of that problem?  Is the suggestion still to use 
>>>K12LTSP 3.1.2 for multiprocessor machines?
>>>
>>>Sorry to dominate your thread with more questions Doug... :)
>>>-Shawn
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