> On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > > Believe it or not, there are a few (ahem) folks running SMP systems in
> > > > production, and the 2.0 kernels may not be the cat's meow, but they
> > >
> > > any 2.0 SMP box that is not strictly cpu-bound is basically crippled.
> >
> > Thats a definite overstatement with 2.0.3x
>
> I would change the wording slightly. I would say "any SMP machine that
> has more than *two* processors is not going to work reliably on 2.0.3x...
Leonard Zubkoff fixed a deep and probably quite nasty 3 or more way
SMP bug in the 2.0.36 pre series. So pre15+ might work nicely on your
quads ;)
Having said that if 2.1.x works it should be better
