Re: Freezing, SMP Kernel and P4
From: Alan Ianson (alianson_at_shaw.ca)
Date: 11/09/05
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Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 20:21:16 -0800 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
On Sun November 6 2005 06:30 pm, David R. Litwin wrote:
> I have a Pentium Four processor with 3.06GHz speed. As far as I can tell,
> this means that I am eligible to use a 686-smp kernel. Though in comparison
> to the non smp kernel it seems to be much faster, an odd thing is also
> happening which I can only attribute to the smp (since I have not really
> seen it on the non smp kernel). My computer is doing some big-time
> freezing. It seems to be random, happening a few hours after I turn on my
> laptop; or only a few minutes. I have to manually do a hard reboot, which
> means it needs to run fsck which means data can be lost or corrupted (aside
> from it possibly damaging the whole computer and generally being a very big
> pain in the arse).
>
> I'd like to know your opinions. Is this freezing due to the smp? If so,
> why? How can I fix it?
>
> I thank you kindly in advance.
I haven't had the pleasure of running an smp kernel. Those are for Symmetric
multi processing if I'm not mistaken, and you need two processors or maybe a
dual core cpu. That's from what I understand, more than what I know.. ;)
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