Re: .127/.128 weirdness

Michael H. Warfield (mhw@wittsend.com)
Sun, 15 Nov 1998 09:55:24 -0500 (EST)


George Bonser enscribed thusly:
> On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Michael H. Warfield wrote:

> > So far... It seems to be unanimous. Everyone who has reported
> > whether the build was SMP enabled or not has responded that this problem
> > is appearing on SMP disabled builds.

> I have had one on my local LUG list report that he has NOT seen the
> problem with a UP kernel, I am not positive that he knows to comment it
> out of the Makefile by hand. He has large RAM (128MB) and SCSI disk. I am
> running less RAM 48MB and IDE disks.

Tell him to run "uname -a" and see if the string "SMP" shows up.
If it does, he's got an SMP build even if it is on a single processor.
I would bet that there are a LOT of systems out there running SMP kernels
just because it's Linus's default, currently, and most people don't bother
to dig into the Makefile and comment it out. Heck! I forget about half
the time...

> George Bonser

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Mike

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