On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 10:40:35AM -0500, Jon Knews wrote:
> I tried once before but got no responses.
>
> I am looking for anyone who has run a motherboard with dual Celeron
> (500) under RedHat Linux (k 2.2.5-15 or above) successfully with SMP
> working.
>
> I found a motherboard, the Abit BP6 up on
> http://www.microsourceusa.com/motherboards.html and they claim it
> will work. It definitely accesspts two Celeron CPUs, that is dual
> PPGA 370 processors/sockets. But I need to make sure from them, and
> from any of you who has done it, that SMP will actually work under
> the o/s, namely RedHat Linux.
>
> Please, please write me back, or send this on to someone you know
> has done this. I have heard conflicting info. Read Celeron was
> designed to allow dual, but also heard from Tyan (another
> motherboard manufacturer) that is could not. Others have made
> manual motherboard modifications to make it so. But maybe this Abit
> BP6 is built for it. Yes, I already emailed MicroSourceUSA on
> this...waiting for their reply.
I am running the Abit BP6 with 2x400 celeron. Yes, the manufacturer
has figured out how to allow the celeron to run dual -- against
Intel's attempts otherwise. While the BP6 has some great features at a
great price, I am having occasional lockups that have been impossible
to solve to this point. It may be that it is just extremely finicky
about hardware. I would suggest spending whatever money you save on
top quality components: ECC RAM, 300 PS, etc.
11:43am up 8 days, 13:15, 34 users, load average: 0.22, 0.09, 0.07
67 processes: 66 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 1.8% user, 7.2% system, 0.0% nice, 190.6% idle
CPU0 states: 0.4% user, 3.1% system, 0.0% nice, 95.4% idle
CPU1 states: 1.0% user, 3.4% system, 0.0% nice, 94.4% idle
Mem: 128080K av, 115796K used, 12284K free, 41848K shrd, 29416K buff
Swap: 64224K av, 3620K used, 60604K free 22680K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE LC STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
24731 root 12 0 42884 41M 2092 0 S 3.3 33.4 38:31 X
24780 hal 12 0 948 948 720 0 S 2.7 0.7 22:07 wmsysmon
29392 hal 7 0 856 856 636 1 R 1.3 0.6 0:02 top
24786 hal 2 0 824 824 664 1 S 0.5 0.6 6:13 wmSMPmon
24841 hal 1 0 2008 2008 1516 0 S 0.3 1.5 0:01 Eterm
25008 hal 1 0 1184 1184 976 0 S 0.3 0.9 4:20 rxvt
24785 hal 1 0 816 816 696 0 S 0.1 0.6 11:40 wmnet
24787 hal 1 0 948 948 736 0 S 0.1 0.7 4:55 wmbp6
1 root 0 0 124 68 52 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:52 init
2 root 0 0 0 0 0 1 SW 0.0 0.0 0:17 kflushd
3 root 0 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:25 kupdate
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