redhat detecting too many cpus?

[Gavin McDonald]

Y'know, I'd be tempted to blame the hardware on that one... 

5 of those 15 are IBM x336's, and they run smooth as butter.  But 
once upon a time, one of them was randomly failing like yours, so
we had an IBM tech replace the system board.  It has been fine 
ever since...  ymmv tho.

-G

Regards,

Gavin McDonald
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry L. Kline [mailto:blkline at attglobal.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 3:21 PM
> To: me at gavitron.com; General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: redhat detecting too many cpus?
> 
> Gavin McDonald wrote:
> > I've got ~ 15 machines with dual Hyper-threaded CPUs (some Intel, some
> > AMD64,) and all run RHEL ES 3.5 with no CPU-related problems.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Gavin McDonald
> 
> 
> ... and I had one IBM x335 with a single Xeon that would randomly lock
> up whenever the SMP kernel ran on it (RHEL 3).  Booting the UNI kernel
> fixed (or at least sidestepped) the problem.
> 
> RHEL 4 has been running flawlessy on the SMP kernel since I upgraded the
> box.
> 
> Barry