[K12OSN] K12LTSP 4.01 on dual cpu

Eric Harrison eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us
Tue Mar 23 18:51:00 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 10:14, Trond Mæhlum wrote:
> I have been told that there is a bug with K12LTSP  4.0 on dual cpu 
> servers. Has this been fixed in 4.01? Or can I install 4.0 and do an apt 
> dist-upgrade to fix this?
> 
> Also, I'm going to use one server for /home and users. It will export 
> /home through NFS and users/passwords through NIS. Can the fileserver be 
> K12LTSP4 and the TS's be K12LTSP 3.1.2?  Or will that setup cause 
> problems? This question is only relevant if the dual cpu bug is still 
> present in 4.0.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Trond Mæhlum


All of the reports I've seen indicate that the FC1 SMP kernels are still
causing some people grief. We have a bunch of servers running the latest
FC1 SMP kernels and have had excellent stability.

I've had a few reports that installing the Whitebox SMP kernel works great
in place of the FC1 SMP kernel: 

ftp://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/pub/whitebox/3.0/en/updates/i686/

-Eric
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