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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
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Subject: Re: SMP broken on Dell PowerEdge 4100/200 under 2.6.0-testxx?
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On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 01:48:54PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Although in this case Colin has 2 PPro 200s.
> Colin - process load should be evenly distributed between CPUs, and this
> is generally the most important thing. Big networking loads (most commonly)
> can put a lot of time into processing interrupts though.

That is rather busted, then.

Colin, could you try booting with noirqbalance on the kernel command
line?


-- wli