2 CPU are not for redundancy, but they protects system from crazy process spending 100% of one CPU (and system still have 50%of capacity).
> > > > --On Saturday, July 31, 2004 20:51 -0700 Michel Py > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > For PCs I install dual Xeons on every production machine for example, > > even though the CPU power needed for some is a 486; Intel processors do > > die like anything else; a processor dying will typically lead to a > > system crash, but it does reboot in single-processor mode when the > > graveyard dude pushes the reset button. I also try do have RAID-10 > > arrays span over two raid cards; same as CPUs, a RAID card that dies > > will likely crash the system but it will reboot in degraded mode. > > Eh really? Whenever I've lost a second CPU (primary or secondary) the > machine was a brick until the secondary CPU was gutted and for Piii slotted > systems a terminator board was installed in the secondary slot. > > What motherboard(s) you using that are holding up to failures like this? > > My experience has shown PSU and motherboard failures are faaaaar more > common than CPUs. > > > -- > Undocumented Features quote of the moment... > "It's not the one bullet with your name on it that you > have to worry about; it's the twenty thousand-odd rounds > labeled `occupant.'" > --Murphy's Laws of Combat >