Re: Compaq ProLiant server

[Aaron D. Turner]

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On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Zow Terry Brugger wrote:

> Fair warning: I have not been able to get 2.1.x running on my professional
> workstation 5000 with dual processors: it runs fine, but fails POST on
> reboot with a processor failure. A few ProLiant owners have reported the
> exact same symptoms, so if your machine has multiple processors on it,
> you will need to run 2.0 on it. This has worked fine for me except that
> the 8xx (SCSI) driver in the 2.0 line is running my SCSI bus at half the
> speed it can do with the 2.1 driver, so disk performance kind of hurts.
> I'm just hoping that a future 2.0 will have a better driver in it b/c I
> don't think I'll be able to do 2.2 .

Have you tried the 2.1 8xx driver with 2.0 or am I really pusing it?  I
haven't ran a 2.1 kernel in ages, but it sounds like things are shaping up
nicely.  Maybe I can wait for 2.2.  From your message though, it sounds
like I can run 2.1, but have to do cold boots anytime I bring the system
down.  Hopefully that won't be too often!

According to the 2.0 kernel docs, the Tlan driver is "experimental".  Does
anyone have a take on how well it performs and how stable it is?  

I know that a lot of work has been done on the SMP code in 2.1- is it
worth running over the lastest 2.0.36pre8 in a production enviroment?

Thanks for the info!

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