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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] SOLVED: Major MCE problem with SMP on Gentoo kernels
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On Thursday 20 May 2004 19:16, Hasse Hagen Johansen wrote:
> >>>>> "Robin" =3D=3D Robin H Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> writes:
>
>     Robin> If you'd pointed out your cpus were different in the first
>     Robin> place, that would have been the first thing to change.  the
>     Robin> term is SMP - _Symmetrical_ Multi-Processing on purpose,
>     Robin> the CPUs need to be identical. I'm surprised it even worked
>     Robin> to the degree it did.
>
> He did point it out early on :-)

Thanks, Hasse.  Glad somebody noticed. :-)

Greg/Robin, in my defense, I feel I must point out:

It was in my first post (/proc/cpuinfo output),

again here:
On Thursday 13 May 2004 07:06, Kevin wrote:
> Does anyone think that my two CPUs having different stepping levels
> could have anything to do with this problem? =C2=A0One is level 7 and the
> other 9.

and again here:
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 04:29, Kevin wrote:
> anything like this before and I'm at a loss on how to resolve it. =C2=A0I=
'm
> tempted to try replacing one of the CPUs to see if identical stepping
> levels (my CPU0 is stepping level 7 and CPU1 is level 9, but they are
> otherwise identical) will resolve the problem.

Thanks again for all the help, folks, and I too am extremely delighted=20
that I can stay with Gentoo.  Over the past 24+ hours as I've been=20
pushing this box to the limit with emerge this and emerge that, upgrading=20
major packages at the snap of a finger, having two different versions of=20
some packages installed in different slots, and building everything from=20
source, it's easy to remember why I struggled so hard to stay with=20
Gentoo.  It really does represent a terrific improvement on the standard=20
distros.

=2D-=20
=2DKevin

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