Re: SMP Linux

2003-01-31 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 01:18:41PM +, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > Anyone using Linux on anything with lots of CPU's? Attempt to do > searches for 'linux smp' on google tends to get me documents last > updated in 1997. IIRC, Linus is quite specific in his intention that linux serve the lower-e

Re: SMP Linux

2003-01-30 Thread Toby|Wintrmute
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 01:18:41PM +, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > Anyone using Linux on anything with lots of CPU's? Attempt to do > searches for 'linux smp' on google tends to get me documents last > updated in 1997. > > I used to run it happily on 2 CPU's, but I wondered if anyone was doing

Re: SMP Linux

2003-01-30 Thread Dirk Koopman
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 13:18, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > Anyone using Linux on anything with lots of CPU's? Attempt to do > searches for 'linux smp' on google tends to get me documents last > updated in 1997. > > I used to run it happily on 2 CPU's, but I wondered if anyone was doing > it seriou

Re: SMP Linux

2003-01-30 Thread Chris Benson
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 05:53:49PM -, Steve Mynott wrote: > Although I think a lot of current linux development work is on SMP and multi > processor scalability so if you were brave enough to run a bleeding edge > kernel with dodgy patches you might get better results. The sparc-kernel list h

Re: SMP Linux

2003-01-30 Thread Steve Mynott
From: "Lusercop" <`the.lusercop'@lusercop.net> > On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 01:18:41PM +, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > > Anyone using Linux on anything with lots of CPU's? Attempt to do > > searches for 'linux smp' on google tends to get me documents last > > updated in 1997. > > I used to run it h

Re: SMP Linux

2003-01-30 Thread Lusercop
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 01:18:41PM +, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > Anyone using Linux on anything with lots of CPU's? Attempt to do > searches for 'linux smp' on google tends to get me documents last > updated in 1997. > I used to run it happily on 2 CPU's, but I wondered if anyone was doing >

Re: SMP Linux

2003-01-30 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 01:18:41PM +, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > Anyone using Linux on anything with lots of CPU's? Attempt to do > searches for 'linux smp' on google tends to get me documents last > updated in 1997. > > I used to run it happily on 2 CPU's, but I wondered if anyone was doing

SMP Linux

2003-01-30 Thread Jonathan Peterson
Anyone using Linux on anything with lots of CPU's? Attempt to do searches for 'linux smp' on google tends to get me documents last updated in 1997. I used to run it happily on 2 CPU's, but I wondered if anyone was doing it seriously on more than 4. -- Jonathan Peterson Technical Manager, Unifi