On stardate Mon, 16 May 2005, the wise Andrew McNaughton entered:
I'd be interested to hear people's recent experiences with Dual Xeons under load with SMP on and HTT off.
A while back there were stability problems with Dual Xeon machines. I've got one of these in production with SMP turned off for the time being. I figure at some point things are stable enough to enable the extra processor safely, but I don't have a spare machine for testing safely.
I gather there are still problems with Dual Xeon with both SMP and HTT turned on, but that turning HTT off helps. So the question is how stable is that configuration?
I own a dual Xeon 2.8 Ghz with HTT on and I don't have stability problems with 5.3-REL running.
It does have problems with the SCSI controller though. The problems it's having has something to do with the driver of the controller and not the fact that it's a dual Xeon or has HTT set on or off.
Marco
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