SMP on Compaq ProLiant 4500

SMP on Compaq ProLiant 4500

[Jan Ostrochovsky]

Hello.

I've read  http://www.van-dijk.net/mailarchive/cpqlin0005/0016.html and also
http://www.cpqlinux.com/pl4500.html.

We have the same problem - we have 15 Compaq ProLiant 4500 servers and 
the only OS where we succesfully used SMP feature of that servers was 
Windows 2000 [and maybe NT].

We tried Linux [kernel 2.2 and 2.4], OpenBSD 3.3, FreeBSD 5, Solaris 
9... computers was working, but they used allways only 1 of 2 or 4 of 
100 MHz CPUs.

Has anybody experiences it this area? [We already contacted Mr. John Cagle,
the answer was to use Windows or UnixWare or OpenServer, but we want to use Linux.]

Can you give us advice how to enable SMP on Linux [or BSD or Solaris or 
... ???]?

Can you recommend us some patch for some kernel and settings of its 
configuration [file .config...]? Source codes will be coolest - maybe we 
can cooperate to finish such solution - there are many Linux experts 
with programmer's skills [Slovak Technical University, Commenius 
University... we have very close contact with strong intelectual and 
technical potential... and we belong to it].

Thanks in advance.

Good Bye.

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Jan Ostrochovsky [ostry]
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e-mail: ostry@host.sk
address: Manzelak B613, 84225 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Re: SMP on Compaq ProLiant 4500

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

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On Sat, 2004-01-17 02:12:46 +0100, Jan Ostrochovsky <ostry@host.sk>
wrote in message <40088C0E.6090109@host.sk>:
> Has anybody experiences it this area? [We already contacted Mr. John Cagle,
> the answer was to use Windows or UnixWare or OpenServer, but we want to use 
> Linux.]

Ask him (again) if Compaq is willing to release the specs for their SMP
scheme. Without that, Linux is out if business...

> Can you give us advice how to enable SMP on Linux [or BSD or Solaris or 
> ... ???]?

Only by doing some programming. And that depends on having some
documentation.

MfG, JBG

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