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Subject: Re: AMD A64 X2 DUALCORE

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:48:39 08/05/05

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On August 05, 2005 at 06:21:13, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On August 04, 2005 at 10:55:28, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>[snip uninteresting discussion]
>
>>>Any default x86-64 core 2.6.10 or later by default already is NUMA and works
>>>perfectly. No need to compile your own core.
>>
>>Wrong answer.  Default most recent redhat kernel crashes with numa=on.
>
>I didn't read the rest of the post (guess why), but he did say the *default*
>kernel. RedHat is famous for adding crappy tweaks.
>
>As I already said, the *default* kernel (and not some Redhat patched crap) works
>perfectly fine with Crafty on my dual-core tournament machine.
>
>--
>GCP


We are now back on Suse, which is what I have used on all the quads in the past,
but the problem is still there.  Several are looking to see what is going on...
more when (if) I get this figured out prior to the WCCC...

Personally I am giving up on Red Hat.  The enterprise edition we were using had
too many bugs.  CPU time was hopelessly wrong (8 threads was reporting 7x the
cpu time that was possible at times, etc.  Suse works...



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