From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dennis Gilmore Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:21:59 +0000 Subject: Re: Sun Enterprise 6500. 10xUltraSPARC/400MHz, 10Gb mem Message-Id: <200603221322.00016.dennis@ausil.us> List-Id: References: <87d5gegxf3.fsf@pumba.bayour.com> In-Reply-To: <87d5gegxf3.fsf@pumba.bayour.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 22 March 2006 12:13, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > How does this sound as a Linux machine? Stability? Scalability? > How good is Linux/SPARC64 in taking advantage of this amount > of CPU's? I've heard that Linux scales up to 32 CPU's (old number?) > but I guess that's on x86, not SPARC64? > > > Would it (Linux) even run on such a machine? I've tried getting > it to work on a E3000, but is getting huge problems with the SCSI > interface (esp if I remember correctly)... I have a E3000i had some issues with the scsi bus i resolved them by terminating the external scsi bus with a scsi terminator. Its been running for months now. -- Regards Dennis Gilmore, RHCE Proud Australian