Re: make slink SMP-clean?
Norris Preyer <preyern@cofc.edu> writes:
> I'm using slink with a 2.2.10 SMP kernel, and top (from procps
> 1:1.2.9-3) works just fine:
I have installed 2.2.7 because I was nervous about some filesystem
problem reports with Adaptec controllers.
> 10:36am up 5 days, 14 min, 1 user, load average: 2.05, 2.04, 2.01
> 75 processes: 72 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: 142.2% user, 57.3% system, 124.1% nice, 0.0% idle
> Mem: 257876K av, 244436K used, 13440K free, 47824K shrd, 94092K buff
> Swap: 128516K av, 3208K used, 125308K free 67888K cached
>
> PID USER SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
> 6433 preyern 1944 1944 524 R N 96.1 0.7 1021m slave3
> 6432 preyern 1944 1944 524 R N 95.2 0.7 1021m slave3
> 14667 preyern 748 748 572 R 5.7 0.2 0:00 top
> .
^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^
I was seeing weird, sometimes negative Values there. It all went well,
after the dealer replaced the second CPU which was supposed to be a
P3-450 like the first one; by "accident" they had installed a P2-400
into the second slot :-(
The BIOS had shown two P3s but a look in /proc/cpuinfo and /me thinks
the technician who assembled that machine will now have to look for a
new job.
Note that the Machine worked well otherwise and was heavily loaded
during two days. Only X was a bit... nasty. I had attributed that to
flaky Mouse. I'm a few hundred Kilometers away from the machine, so I
do not even know the exact symptoms, but my pal reported mouse-clicks
being unreliable and the windowmanager being somewhat tiresome (>3 sec
to change focus).
Anyway: ASUS Boards seem to run nicely with different CPUs as does
Linux. Only Graphics and top are troublesome and who knows, perhaps
with switching off MTRR in the kernel would have helped there too.
kind Regards,
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