Re: tlug: 6-way P-Pro boards

["Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Jonathan Byrne wrote:

> Yesterday we noticed somebody was selling six-way Pentium Pro 
> motherboards on Yahoo auctions.  I realize the odds of finding
> a matched set of six P-Pros, but if that could be done, do you
> think a Linux SMP kernel (or *BSD) would be happy with such a thing? 

SMP in Linux and BSD blows currently.  I'm sure it would *work*, but I'd
bet that it wouldn't be fully optimized.  They're Working On It, or so
I've heard.

How does Solaris x86 do on SMP, by the way?  Chris? :)

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Scott M. Stone, CCNA <sstone@example.com>
UNIX Systems and Network Engineer
Taos - The SysAdmin Company 

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