[NTLUG:Discuss] SMP under SuSE 6.3

[Koren, Peter A.]

I am going to be installing Suse 6.3 this weekend on a dual Celeron based
machine and I'll let you know how it goes. If it is flaky, I'll just
recompile the latest kernel to see if that fixes it.

BTW, do you think it is best to install everything and then remove stuff
after the install? I want development tools, but have no need for most of
the languages Suse installs if you choose the development option. I am just
afraid that if I try to remove some language packages, that some libraries
common to other languages will get zapped. Or is that just my paranoia?

With Suse, disk size sure does count.

Regards,

Peter Koren

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Baker [mailto:sjbaker1 at airmail.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 11:24 PM
To: discuss at ntlug.org
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] SMP under SuSE 6.3



Have any of you guys use the SMP kernel that comes with SuSE 6.3?

I installed SuSE 6.3 on my PC at work (which is a Gateway box
with Dual 450MHz Xeon CPU's) - and it auto-selected an SMP
kernel for me.

However, the machine was flakey as hell - crashing every
few hours even if I wasn't working on it - crashing much
more frequently when I was doing lots of stuff using KDE,
networking, etc, etc.

Since I needed to get some work done - and NOT fritz with
my PC, I tried switching to the non-SMP kernel - and everything
is solid - no crashes after a full 10 hour day of active
code development, net surfing, etc. (I guessed that might
be the problem because I have a similar machine at home - but
with just one CPU and it was running SuSE 6.3 just fine).

I'd done the simple thing and installed from scratch using
YAST2 and selecting 'Install Everything'.  I didn't manually
change anything other than X windows setups and network
addresses.

This same machine had been running an early RedHat 2.1 kernel
with the ugly SMP hacks without problems just prior to rebuilding
it.

Does anyone have any ideas where I should go from here?

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Steve Baker                  http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1
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sjbaker at hti.com      (work)

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