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by **chad paul** » Mon, 03 Jul 2000 04:00:00

Hi,

I am thinking of getting a dual cpu motherboard. Any suggestions for
the celleron or amd k6-2 series from Asus, teckram or DFI? any idea if
AMD k6-2 or k6-3 cpus can be in a dual cpu config?

Any one running red hat linux 6.2 in a dual system? IS there any
special verson of red hat 6.2 that must be used for the dual cpu
config?

Any suggestions welcomed.

Chad

by **Hal Burgi** » Mon, 03 Jul 2000 04:00:00

>Any one running red hat linux 6.2 in a dual system? IS there any
>special verson of red hat 6.2 that must be used for the dual cpu
>config?

BP6 with 6.2. RH6.x comes with stock SMP kernels, and normally the
installation detects this OK and defaults to the right one. But I prefer
to do my own kernels, so never used RH's much. I'm sure they are OK with
Alan Cox, etc on the payroll. Other than the kernel, I can't think of
anything else that requires a special SMP config.

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Hal B

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by **Juergen Pfan** » Mon, 03 Jul 2000 04:00:00

> >Any one running red hat linux 6.2 in a dual system? IS there any
> >special verson of red hat 6.2 that must be used for the dual cpu
> >config?

> BP6 with 6.2. RH6.x comes with stock SMP kernels, and normally the
> installation detects this OK and defaults to the right one. But I prefer
> to do my own kernels, so never used RH's much. I'm sure they are OK with
> Alan Cox, etc on the payroll. Other than the kernel, I can't think of
> anything else that requires a special SMP config.

Hal is talking about the Abit BP6 - a dual PPGA-370 (!) Celeron MoBo.
Even though I own the same board running stable SMP with RH 6.1 still,
as well as Caldera 2.3 and several SuSEs, I don't know if I should
recommend that board - not so much because of the numerous reports
of system lockups after several days uptime (the reason of which
still uncertain), BUT more due to the fact that the newer Celerons
come for the FC-PGA socket, and you'll soon can't buy '370 CPUs any
more.
Complain to Intel about them arbitrarily changing CPU interfaces every
few months (in order to keep the MoBo market - and the user - running
?),
but it is a fact.
Despite that, the Abit BP6 still IS a comparatively cheap entry point
into SMP IMHO - even if another limitation of it comes to my mind :
it has got only 3 SDRAM DIMM sockets, thus allowing "only" 768 MB RAM
(of which I've already implemented 640, so the "end" in sight...).
Altogether, I'd state that the BP6 with a flexible BIOS setup, espec.
for tuning FSB speed etc., is more interesting to experimenters (and
overclockers), rather than for someone willing to set up a stable
production SMP server.

Just my 2c

Juergen

by **Hal Burgi** » Mon, 03 Jul 2000 04:00:00

On Sun, 02 Jul 2000 07:45:22 +0200, Juergen Pfann

>> On Sun, 02 Jul 2000 04:17:29 GMT, chad pauli

>> >Any one running red hat linux 6.2 in a dual system? IS there any
>> >special verson of red hat 6.2 that must be used for the dual cpu
>> >config?

>> BP6 with 6.2. RH6.x comes with stock SMP kernels, and normally the
>> installation detects this OK and defaults to the right one. But I prefer
>> to do my own kernels, so never used RH's much. I'm sure they are OK with
>> Alan Cox, etc on the payroll. Other than the kernel, I can't think of
>> anything else that requires a special SMP config.

>Hal is talking about the Abit BP6 - a dual PPGA-370 (!) Celeron MoBo.
>Even though I own the same board running stable SMP with RH 6.1 still,
>as well as Caldera 2.3 and several SuSEs, I don't know if I should
>recommend that board - not so much because of the numerous reports of
>system lockups after several days uptime (the reason of which still
>uncertain), BUT more due to the fact that the newer Celerons come for
>the FC-PGA socket, and you'll soon can't buy '370 CPUs any more.

Yes, I didn't intentionally recommend it for various reasons. I fought
the lockups for many moons. I finally got it stable with the QQ BIOS, but
it has been a hair raising experience. I still feel like I am walking on
ice, though have not had a lockup since late Feb. But also the Celeron
changes. The HPT ATA/66 has been a source of problems for some as well.

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Hal B

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by **James Knowle** » Tue, 04 Jul 2000 04:00:00

Quote:> Any one running red hat linux 6.2 in a dual system?

I'm sitting at my server. It's a little older, but works great with
stock RedHat distributions.

ASUS motherboard (I don't remember if the P2B-D is the old server MB or
the current) with dual P-II/400 MHz. This particular model has built-in
SCSI, on which I'm running RAID-5 off the stock 2.2.14 kernel.

Quote:> IS there any
> special verson of red hat 6.2 that must be used for the dual cpu
> config?

Not that I'm aware of.

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Your mind is the only prison that can ever bind your soul.

by **Ctrl-Alt-De** » Thu, 06 Jul 2000 04:00:00

I thought power management didn't work under SMP anyway, regardless of the
mobo - you can't even auto-power-off when you shutdown!

> >>Any one running red hat linux 6.2 in a dual system? IS there any
> >>special verson of red hat 6.2 that must be used for the dual cpu
> >>config?

> >BP6 with 6.2. RH6.x comes with stock SMP kernels, and normally the
> >installation detects this OK and defaults to the right one. But I prefer
> >to do my own kernels, so never used RH's much. I'm sure they are OK with
> >Alan Cox, etc on the payroll. Other than the kernel, I can't think of
> >anything else that requires a special SMP config.

> Disabling power management is also recommended.

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