Posted by william on Fri Jan 29 20:02:45 1999
In Reply to: new iglu box posted by TimJ on January 29, 1999 at 18:12:23:
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>Looking at recomending a server for iglu. I have made an assumption that linux will cope with a dual pentium system. Is this correct?Yes, but you should probably make some checks on which
mobos are known to work---I don't know anything about
SMP on Linux but hardware incompatibility is the major
curse one runs into trying out new things ...It is alleged that the just-released 2.2.* Linux kernel
runs much better with SMP (and supposedly more efficiently
overall) than the currently-used 2.0.*. The main thing
is that kernel calls are never split betwen processors,
so that you only use both at once for two processes
not making kernel calls or one making a kernel call and
the other just calculating or whatever. 2.2.* fixes this.However if you want something to be trivial to install off
a CD right now you have to stick with 2.0.*, for instance
Red Hat 5.2. Whether the stock kernel that comes on the
CD is compiled for SMP I don't know but it's very easy
to rebuild a kernel any way you want so that isn't a problem.
(Unfortunately using 2.2.1 means getting updated versions of
a slew of core system libraries to go with it, which is
simple but not like installing off a CD.)Distributions with 2.2.* are supposed to be arriving
soon but we are talking weeks rather than days.