[olug] Dual Athlon MP info

[Cale Lewis]

In BeOS it's out-of-the-box support for up to 8 CPU's. Works seamlessly, but 
most Linux distros I've tried do all or most of the hard part for you anymore 
so you really don't ever notice much.

I'm currently piecing together a Proliant quad P-Pro, not because it's new 
and fast but because it's a cheap testbed for Haiku's SMP performance. Haiku 
is the opensource replacement for BeOS r5. It's coming along quite well. Uses 
the NewOS kernel writen by Travis Geiselbrecht, an ex-Be Inc. software 
engineer. 

Very much like the original BeOS kernel in design and it's multi-threading 
and multi-procc. capabilities. With testing we hope to keep as close to the 
original as we can in as many ways as possible. Hopefully we'll add the cross
-platform PPC implementation of the original BeOS. When running, it's hard to 
tell the two versions apart for most casual users. The NewOS kernel will 
already bring with it at least partial abilitiy to also run on Hitachi SH-4, 
and with luck Travis' planned support for the UltraSPARC IIe, MIPs 5000, 
Alpha, and ARM.

It's nice to be able to zip a multi-mega or gigabyte file while emptying the 
trash of a gig or 2 WHILE you're surfing the internet or maybe even burning a 
CD! SMP for me! It's the only way to fly!

Cale


>Looks like I'm getting a dual cpu board(tyan k7x w/ cpus(1800MP) and 512MB 
>ram, oh and a 1U chassis PSU.
>
>OK, so i'm getting it in the mail in a few days, and I have the intentions 
of 
>putting a light slack on an older scsi 160 raid 0,1 array, and running my 
>verlihub on it...sending to colo in chicago on a shared 100Mb.
>
>I've neva tuned a dual cpu machine before, is there anything I need to know 
>thats really differnt than a single machine?   I intend on putting in 
atleast 
>1 more GB of ram before i send her off into the unknown.
>Thx in advance.
>
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