[NTLUG:Discuss] SMP under SuSE 6.3

[S Jackson]

I have used the SMP kernel from SuSE 6.3 on 2 different machines.  One
is a dual PPro 200 and the other is a dual PIII 450.  I had no problems
with the default SMP kernel that SuSE provides.  However, I did get the
new source and recompile with 2.2.14 shortly after instalation.

Jackson

Steve Baker wrote:
> 
> 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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