On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > 1. Is there any support for the ServerWorks (formally Reliance) chipset in > > Linux 2.2? I can't seem to find definite information about this > > anywhere. I find that quite strange considering the large amount of > > ServerWorks based boards about to hit the market (Supermicro, Tyan, > > AOpen etc) > > On PC class machines its basically the BIOS that has to deal with the chipset > not the OS. So it should work I am happy to hear that. Now all I have to worry about is bugs in the Supermicro board. I have quite a trust in ServerWorks and their chipsets considering that they are targeting the server market and that their chips are currently active in many high load servers our there. > > 3. Is SMP mature enough on Linux 2.2 to run it on a production server? > > Scaling will depend on the system loading. Anything reasonably CPU loading > will scale well, heavy network or I/O users often do not. The load is mainly generated by the MySQL server that I know is SMP capable. Apache will also take up it's fair share and even though it's not made for SMP, the httpd processes will run on both processors as long as the kernel is complied with SMP support (or so I'm told). With this in mind I hope it will scale well. Johan - Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at http://www.irisa.fr/prive/dmentre/smp-howto/ To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
