[5894] in Release_7.7_team
Re: default smp installs on compatible hardware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Thu Dec 20 21:11:51 2007
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:11:13 -0500
To: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>
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I concur with your assessment. This is a change whose time has come.
-Bill
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William Cattey
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On Dec 20, 2007, at 7:58 PM, andrew m. boardman wrote:
>
> With the soon-to-be-released installer, I plan to install an smp
> kernel
> by default on any machine which can use it, and as of 9.4.45 that
> will be
> supported by the release for PUBLIC=true machines.
>
> So far as I know this is reasonably stable and usable. (With one
> exception, display drivers, that I'm looking at now.) Also, the next
> iteration of cluster hardware is a dual-core configuration, so the
> time
> has clearly come.
>
> Any comments/concerns/objections?
