[NTLUG:Discuss] sc2b motherboard

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Steve Orr wrote:

>We are about to install Red Hat 6.2 on a Intel SCB2 motherboard, with dual
>1GB proccessors, 512 GB memory, 1GB fiber I/O controllers. Our application
>is very I/O intensive. I am intrested in any experience with this
>motherboard, and it's compliance with Red Hat v 6.2.
>
Are you locked into Red Hat 6.2?  I'd really recommend that you go with 
Red Hat 7.2 with the 2.4 kernel since the 2.4 kernel series handles 
SMP/Dual Processing much better than the 2.2 kernels in RH6.2 
(kernel-2.2 series just barely handled Dual Processors).