On 24 November 2011 02:46, Kirk Wallace <kwall...@wallacecompany.com> wrote:
> What has me nervous is my recent experience of "upgrading" from 8.04 to > 10.04 and having some of my long trusted motherboards not work or have > terrible latency, with the usual fixes having no effect. I believe that part of this was not directly related to EMC2. My impression is that the decision was made to support SMP as such a large proportion of motherboards are multi-core or multi-CPU now (even the 1U server that runs my machine is dual Xeon). Unfortunately that seemed to bring in a dependency on a local APIC, which some boards don't seem to support, or, worse, claim to support but are broken. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_APIC_Architecture I believe that it would have been possible to make the 2.4 LiveCD (on 10.04) just as compatible as the 2.3 LiveCD (on 8.04) but at the expense of rather crippling a lot of hardware. Arguably this is a non-issue in practice, but people seem to have a distaste for buying CPUS and having them sit idle. It is worth re-iterating that all versions up to "master"(2.6) work perfectly well on Ubuntu 8.04. -- atp The idea that there is no such thing as objective truth is, quite simply, wrong. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
