[linux-dvb] Re: anyone with a SMP-system?

[Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>]

#include <hallo.h>

On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:01:24AM +0200, Markus Schorer wrote:
> hi,
> 
> (back to english):
> i was bit too optimistic about my system. yesterday i had a
> solid freeze after 10mins of recording.
> i also get rather frequent "IOAPIC error on cpuX"'s.

Thats a sign of hardware failure/incompatibilty

> what else is kind of interesting: if i boot UP, i get
> less than 10% total usage by vdr threads (when recording).
> under SMP i get 3 threads with 5%, 10% and 15% each.
> why would a smp system use more cpu?

SMP needs a bit more because of locking.

> Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> 
> > I use an SMP-System since Driver 0.6 with no problems at all.
> > (Dual PII-400, GX-Chipset Mainboard (Tyan Thunder 100))
> > 
> 
> really? could it be races in vdr code that get hit with my 
> cpu/speed combo?

As i said. I have a SMP-System running since over a YEAR and no
problems at all with it. I don't think it's the software.




Bis denn

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