Re: Dual processor

2005-11-16 Thread Craig M. Houck
Sorry in advance. Not a 'pure' Debian solution BUT one bsed on Debian. ClusterKnoppix will auto sense multi-processors. http://bofh.be/clusterknoppix/ RbtBotL Craig - ><> oBU SysAdmin /|\ 607 777 6827 ^ Tot Ziens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Dual processor

2005-11-16 Thread Joseph Haig
--- "Andrew M.A. Cater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:48:50PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've installed sarge from DVD onto a dual pentium 3 machine. How > can I > > tell whether debian has detected both processors? Or can I just > assume it > > will have? >

Re: Dual processor

2005-11-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:48:50PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've installed sarge from DVD onto a dual pentium 3 machine. How can I > tell whether debian has detected both processors? Or can I just assume it > will have? > If you have the framebuffer at login - you should see two peng

Re: Dual processor

2005-11-15 Thread Doug Wiltanger
How about more /proc/cpuinfo - Original Message - From: "k l u r t" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 7:44 PM Subject: Re: Dual processor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dual processor

2005-11-15 Thread k l u r t
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've installed sarge from DVD onto a dual pentium 3 machine. How can I tell whether debian has detected both processors? Or can I just assume it will have? hi, have you tried dmesg... what does it say? k l u r t pgpH2PYgzmRFq.pgp Description: PGP Digital Sig

Re: Dual processor

2005-11-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:48:50PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've installed sarge from DVD onto a dual pentium 3 machine. How can I tell > whether debian has detected both processors? Or can I just assume it will > have? > Don't assume. You know what they say :-) By default, Debian

RE: dual processor website/howto

2002-09-17 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| Can someone point me to a website that covers advantages/disadvantages | of a dual processor machine over a single processor machine, especially in | linux? http://2cpu.com http://www.linux.org.uk/SMP/title.html Try a google search for smp and linux... HTH, Brooks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Dual Processor machine

2001-12-12 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001, Jérôme-Georges-Michel BENOIT wrote: > Thanks you very much for your advice. > > > do you have a real smp kernel installed? > > Good question ;-) > > I guess that I have installed Debian > in the basic way: > 1] how can I check this point ? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep SMP /b

Re: Dual Processor machine

2001-12-12 Thread MH
> "Jérôme-Georges-Michel" == Jérôme-Georges-Michel BENOIT <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> writes: Jérôme-Georges-Michel> Thanks you very much for your advice. >> do you have a real smp kernel installed? Jérôme-Georges-Michel> Good question ;-) Jérôme-Georges-Michel> I guess that I

Re: Dual Processor machine

2001-12-12 Thread Jérôme-Georges-Michel BENOIT
Thanks you very much for your advice. > do you have a real smp kernel installed? Good question ;-) I guess that I have installed Debian in the basic way: 1] how can I check this point ? 2] may I configure some files ? 3] may I build a new kernel ? Thanks, Jerome BENOIT

Re: Dual Processor machine

2001-12-11 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 06:11:00AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: | dman wrote: | > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 05:15:14AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: | > | Bonjour: | > | Futhermore, I have created a swap file four times greater | > | than the RAM of the machine (1Gb): | > | my actual swap (checked with

Re: Dual Processor machine

2001-12-11 Thread Eric Sharkey
> I have just install the Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (testing/unstable) > on a dual processor machine > --I installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 on my laptop a few months ago. > To have a nice login I have installed the `linuxlogo' package: > according to the printed message, only one processor is identified.

Re: Dual Processor machine

2001-12-11 Thread Jerome BENOIT
dman wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 05:15:14AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > | Bonjour: > | > | I have just install the Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (testing/unstable) > | on a dual processor machine > | --I installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 on my laptop a few months ago. > | To have a nice login I hav

Re: Dual Processor machine

2001-12-11 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 05:15:14AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: | Bonjour: | | I have just install the Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (testing/unstable) | on a dual processor machine | --I installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 on my laptop a few months ago. | To have a nice login I have installed the `linuxlogo' pa

Re: Dual Processor machine

2001-12-11 Thread shock
* Jerome BENOIT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Bonjour: > > How can we check that the two processor are detected ? cat /proc/cpuinfo you should have one set of entries for each processor. -- ) ,_),_) (-(__ |_ _ _ |/ ) | |(_)(_ |\ ( \_,

Re: Dual processor PIII 866 versus single Pentium 1.4Ghz

2001-06-21 Thread mdevin
Thanks for all the replies. They have been most helpful. It seems as though SCSI is definitely the way to go for this large database server. Essentially it will be the server for a database with the 486 / slow pentiums retrieving and writing small amounts of data continuously. So definitely sold

Re: Dual processor PIII 866 versus single Pentium 1.4Ghz

2001-06-21 Thread Chris . Smith
Hi, > Vector wrote: > > For multiprocessor support, intel is not as horrid as you proclaim it to > > be. No question, AMD rocks. But there are not many (any at all?) dual > > cpu boards out there and the support for more than one processor with AMD > > is still quite immature. For mid-range an

Re: Dual processor PIII 866 versus single Pentium 1.4Ghz

2001-06-20 Thread Lee Elliott
Dunno about expert, but I have some experience in this area. The P4, having a long pipeline, is more suited to streaming type processing: the pipeline has to be 'full' before it'll give peak performance. I think that most of the s/w that supports the new clever bits in the P4 are benchmarking pac

Re: Dual processor PIII 866 versus single Pentium 1.4Ghz

2001-06-20 Thread Vector
Sweet! I'll check it out and let you know what it's like... I was once a big fan of Tyan boards but had to get away from them for a while because they weren't releasing boards that were meeting my needs. Thanks for the heads up! vector > Tyan has released a dual Athlon motherboard. According

Re: Dual processor PIII 866 versus single Pentium 1.4Ghz

2001-06-20 Thread Mike
Vector wrote: > For multiprocessor support, intel is not as horrid as you proclaim it to > be. No question, AMD rocks. But there are not many (any at all?) dual > cpu boards out there and the support for more than one processor with AMD > is still quite immature. For mid-range and up servers, mu

Re: Dual processor PIII 866 versus single Pentium 1.4Ghz

2001-06-20 Thread Vector
For multiprocessor support, intel is not as horrid as you proclaim it to be. No question, AMD rocks. But there are not many (any at all?) dual cpu boards out there and the support for more than one processor with AMD is still quite immature. For mid-range and up servers, multiple CPU's can be a

RE: Dual processor PIII 866 versus single Pentium 1.4Ghz

2001-06-20 Thread Paul Rae
personally i would always stick to intel, especially in a server environment, and in your situation i would go for the dual p3 soloution -Original Message- From: John To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Debian-user Sent: 20/06/01 18:29 Subject: Re: Dual processor PIII 866 versus single Pentium 1.4Ghz

Re: Dual processor PIII 866 versus single Pentium 1.4Ghz

2001-06-20 Thread John
Ill tell you right now. DONT GET INTEL CPUS. they are horrid now-a-days. AMD chips are based off of newer architecture, have 33% more on-chip chache, and can run at even 266mhz system bus, as opposed to only 133mhz p3. Athlons also have 3 Floating point pipelines, as opposed to p3's 1. all of t