I tested by compiling on 3 different kernel trees continuously and well as
updatedb at the same time, in a loop. (or 4 loops :).
I was rather pleased that there was no system lockup and data corruption
towards the end (doing the same on 2.1.95 almost trashed my filesystem).
my system is Dual-Pentium 100, AIC7870 onboard, 64MB ram , 3 * 1GB SCSI +
2 * IDE .
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Michael Meissner wrote:
> | The SMP-FAQ says that Adaptec drivers are broken under SMP-enabled
> | kernels... My personal experience was that using a SMP system with a
> | Adapect SCSI onboard was SO frustrating that we chose to use a IDE HD
> | instead.
> |
> | Check the FAQ at http://www.irisa.fr/prive/dmentre/smp-faq/
>
> It still should be fixed. It works fine under 2.1.79 for instance, though I
> did start seeing data corruption in 2.1.8x and 2.1.9x revisions.
>
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