>
> On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>
> > About the only think I can think of is turning off CPUs on a SMP
> > laptop for powermanagement.. :P So unless someone from transmeta speaks
> > up about a quad cpu laptop this just sounds like a feature looking for a
> > need. (i.e. worthless cruft)
>
> No!
>
> Think of a fan failing on one of the CPUs, in the middle of a veri
> important computing task. If you can umount that CPU, it will not burn and
> crash from overheat, and your process can also finish off.
>
> Thinking of HA, when desinging the future of linux is a must...
>
> -- SaPE
>
> Peter, Sasi <sape@sch.hu>
>
>
>
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