[OT] How to test a bunch of ethernet cards of a cluster?

is, or any suggestions about some existing softwares which can automate this, for I have to test a bunch of them? Thanks a lot. -- Best regards, James He

How come idle time > uptime

Hi, When I ran "w" command, I was so surprised to find that the idle time is 3 times bigger as the uptime. How come? $ w 15:11:10 up 61 days, 1:20, 4 users, load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT root tty1 -

Re: Should one CPU(Hyper-Threading) machine install SMP kernel?

Hi Marco, I didn't notice it that there is no "ht" sign in the flags info below until you pointed it out. I'm sorry. But I do have another machine with one hyper-threading CPU, so never mind. Thanks for all. :-) $ cat /proc/cpuinfo flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 apic sep mtrr p

Should one CPU(Hyper-Threading) machine install SMP kernel?

Hi, Should one CPU(Hyper-Threading) machine use SMP kernel, or stick to a regular kernel? I know it's a dumb question. Please do help me. Thanks a lot! :-) $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 13 model name : Intel(R) P