[73003] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Quick question.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Thu Aug 5 12:04:42 2004
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0408050641570.2622@fogarty.jakma.org>
Cc: Alexei Roudnev <alex@relcom.net>, Paul G <paul@rusko.us>,
nanog@merit.edu
From: Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 02:02:29 -0700
To: Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Aug 4, 2004, at 10:53 PM, Paul Jakma wrote:
>
> On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Alexei Roudnev wrote:
>
>> I am sorry, but I do not make a theory - I just repors practical
>> results. 2 CPU systems are much more stable than 1 CPU system, in my
>> experience. You are free to find an explanatiion, if you want -:).
>
> The theory suggests your experience is unusual,
Practice suggests that there may well be good reason for this.
Mainboards that are set up for 2 CPUs are likely to
be engineered to a much higher standard than your normal chop-shop
cheapie special. An interesting experiment
would be to run a 1 CPU system based on the exact same 2 CPU mainboard
and if it the level of reliability
would be significantly different.
Tony
