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From: Marko Mikulicic <marko@××××.org>
To: Riyad Kalla <rsk@×××××××××.edu>
Cc: 'Denis Shcherbakov' <deniss@×××××××××.EDU>, gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] SMP kernel halts system - hyperthreading??
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 19:17:37
Message-Id: 3E04BD96.6060204@seul.org
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-dev] SMP kernel halts system - hyperthreading?? by Riyad Kalla
1 Riyad Kalla wrote:
2 > Denis,
3 > That sounds like the server at work I'm using, nice machine..
4 >
5 > Anywya, there was a thread on something like this in the forums, and it
6 > basically turned out to be the SMP Gentoo kernel, the guy went to
7 > vanilla kernel and everything worked just dandy. Can you verify this?
8 > Maybe the kernel team needs to focus on something?
9 >
10 > Can you run 4 threads of Seti@Home to see if it kills the machine? That
11 > should be a good test as it will saturate your CPUs
12 >
13 > Best,
14 > -Riyad
15
16 I have a 2x2.4Ghz Xeon with Hyperthreading enabled on a 2.4.19-xfs
17 kernel and everything works great.
18 However hyperthreading can be disabled in the BIOS. (when I bought the
19 machine HT was disabled indeed ....). Dennis, do you have a E7500
20 motherboard ?
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22 Marko
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