I'm not sure about the Mandrake kernels. However if you ask a kernel
developer, they'll tell you that a vanilla SMP kernel will run fine on a UP
box, you will just loose some performance because of extra locking.
My guess is that many of the patches are not SMP / UP clean.
-Sean
On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 04:20:10PM -0400, Thomas Naughton wrote:
> sean,
>
> so you're saying that the SMP kernels shipped w/ say MDK are more
> versitile than those packaged w/ RH? The SMP kernel thing has hit us
> twice now, XTORC and a VMware cluster.
>
> just curious if MDK's packaged RPMs would not hit this problem on say
> VMware virtual clusters, etc. No big deal now, just curious.
>
> --tjn
>
> _________________________________________________________________________
> Thomas Naughton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
> On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Sean Dague wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 02:45:02PM -0500, Jason B. wrote:
> > > As it is, we figure out whether the nodes are UP or SMP at some point. If
> > > the nodes get both installed (which they do), SIS should make the appropriate one
> > > the default boot kernel when it sets up LILO.
> >
> > The issue here is that SIS uses a UP kernel for install, so it can't detect
> > whether or not there are more processors there. SMP kernels should run on
> > UP boxes in most cases, however the Red Hat kernels seem very problematic in
> > this regard.
> >
> > -Sean
> >
> > > Jason
> > >
> > > On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Steven A. DuChene wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 10:52:11AM -0500, brechin wrote:
> > > > > Actually, this seems to be an issue of trying to run an SMP kernel on a UP
> > > > > box. This is a recurring issue that has been ignored, but we now have
>another
> > > > > chance to fix the problem. Anyone think we ought to do something about this?
> > > > >
> > > > > Jason
> > > > >
> > > > > >===== Original Message From "Steven A. DuChene"
> > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =====
> > > > > >On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 07:06:34AM -0700, Richard Ferri wrote:
> > > > > >> Steve,
> > > > > >> I am running RedHat 7.2, the 2.4.7-10 kernel.
> > > > > >> Once I moved from the SMP kernel to the UP kernel,
> > > > > >> life was good... Rich
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >
> > > > > >Yes, this is a known issue with some versions of RedHat. I don't
> > > > > >know if they fixed it yet in 7.3
> > > > > >
> > > > > >I don't have many non-SMP boxes here so I can't test this problem.
> > > >
> > > > It requires running a UP kernel on a UP node. Do we have anyway of determining
> > > > this? How will we know if a particular distro even packages both a UP kernel
> > > > as well as a SMP one? I know most do but we would have to figure out the
> > > > naming convention for each distro.
> > > >
> > > > I guessing that fixing this will require some unusual trickery by SIS that
> > > > gets awefully close to altering the generic install methods for what ever
>distro
> > > > we are layering oscar on top of.
> > > >
> > > > I recall our software devel team at VA having this same issue. I "think" they
> > > > fixed it by fixing/changing something in the kernel but off the top of my head
> > > > I don't recall what it was. Can anyone determine if this same problem still
> > > > occurs with the kernels packaged with RedHat-7.3 ???
> > > > --
> > > > Steven A. DuChene [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > >
> > >
> > >
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> >
> > There is no silver bullet. Plus, werewolves make better neighbors than
> > zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down.
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