Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Gigabit NIC question. | | From | Jes Sorensen <> | | Date | 12 Jul 2000 20:32:02 +0200 |
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>>>>> ">" == Christopher E Brown <cbrown@denalics.net> writes:
>> On 12 Jul 2000, Jes Sorensen wrote: >> Depends on what you do with it, at CERN we had soo many problems >> with it on SMP machines. 2.2.x was an order of magnitude better.
> I think alot of it comes down to hardware choice. There > seemed to be many more driver vs SMP issues with 2.0.3x, and some > SMP support that 2.2.x did better when dealing with interesting SMP > setups (some compaqs, ALR/Unisys/DataGeneral PProx4 and PProx6 > units/etc).
>> Pick known clean running MBs, and cards and you did well, >> catalog engineer the system without researching what was stable >> with SMP and get bitten hard.
Which is exactly what we did and it turned into a nightmare, the same machines runs much better with 2.2.x. Intel motherboards, brand label PCI cards etc etc. There is no generic rule for 2.0.x being more stable than 2.2.x.
Jes
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