[frgeek-michiana] Re: SMP on Turbine (fwd)

This is per Toms's request, my comments further down.

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From:    Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:      csxt@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: SMP on Turbine
Date:    Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:19:01 -0500

At 10:28 PM 3/28/04 -0500, you wrote:
> > I searched the K12LTSP archive for 2003 and 2004. Folks posted issues with
> > Fedora Core 1 (FC1) SMP kernels. Others are reporting 100% uptime with FC1
> > kernels.
> >
> > Bugzilla at RH reveals FC1 stock SMP kernel problems which seem to be
> > resolved by compiling plain vanilla 2.4.2x SMP kernels from source. Latest
> > post was 3/25/04.
> >
> > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109497
> > Tom
>
>    Hmmm.... Mixed results. Well hell, I'll see what it will take to download
>FC1 and see what I can do with it. I'm down to my CD-R so this might have to
>wait a it.

>Last CD-R?


Yup, I've got one blank left, if FC1 needs more then 1 cd I'll need to buy more 
before I yank it down and burn it.

>Update:
>
>    On my personal system I fubar'd so bad last night.... I got the system
>running pretty damn good. I tried a 2.6.3-1 SMP kernel but the one they
>distribute doesn't have PS/2 support enabled or it's VERY buggy. (D'oh!)
>
>    So I ended up on 2.4.24-1-686-smp and it really looks like it solves a

>*LOT* of problems I was having. Of course, everything went through a major
>upgrade so I'm still chasing odd and end type problems but the "Testing"
>branch of Debian seems to behave much better then "Stable" at least for my
>application.

>Debian stable is ancient code by most folks standards. Glad to hear testing 
>is better. Slack releases have a similar problem -- they age quickly. Slack 
>maintains a "current" distro which keeps all packages up to date but with 
>increased risk of failure, not sure how much risk. Nor am I sure Slack 
>distributes an SMP kernel. They may leave it up to the individual to 
>compile SMP kernels. I have Slack 9.1 running and keep it patched. I'm 
>nervous about upgrading to "current" and will wait for the next major 
>release before risking breaking the system.

   That's understandable. I was sweating some bullets sunday morning migrating 
from Stable to Testing. I had my home directory stuff safe so if I had lost the 
system it would have been no big deal.

   THe more I'm thinking about it. Once I get Debian / LTSP going, I'm thinking 
of compiling our own SMP kernel specific to that machine to see if the smp 
problems goes away. 

>I'd like you to post the FGM related stuff you do to the regular FGM list 
>or the FGM-dev list so folks know you are still involved and can appreciate 
>what you are doing.
>Tom

   Consider it done.

   I do not remember what state my "development" machine is in so I'm going to 
blow it out and reset it up once again. Heck, I could use the experience 
setting up aolserver / tcl/tk / postgresql anyhow.

   Can you advise current versions to use or have we switched products?

   Thanks!
   
   Goose





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