Re: SMP kernel on uniprocessor system?

Matthew Wilcox (Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com)
Mon, 4 Oct 1999 10:27:03 +0200


On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 08:40:38PM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Only if you're running uniprocessor on an SMP motherboard.

Last time I tried this (2.1.9x or so), all my processes went zombie.
I bought a new pair of processors shortly afterwards, so I haven't
tried it since. Does anyone actually test that this works or is it
merely assumed?

-- 
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson

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