 | | | Dual-core Opteron Support on RHEL v3 | Dual-core Opteron Support on RHEL v3 2006-01-22 - By Stephen J. Smoogen
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On 1/22/06, Rik Herrin <rikherrin@(protected)> wrote:
> Hi,
> We were thinking of purchasing a dual-core Opteron
> and deploying an application requiring RHEL v3 U2 on
> it. However, after reading the following article,
> http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2447, it
> mentions the following:
>
> "The new Dual core Opteron makes our test complete.
> While Windows (XP and 2003) recognized and utilized
> the cores easily, SUSE SLES 9 Linux was a little more
> stubborn. With the original SLES 9 kernel 2.6.5-97,
> the dual Opteron would just crash. We applied Service
> Pack 1 and the new Opteron would boot and recognize
> the two cores, but the second CPU was disabled because
> of APIC IRQ problems."
>
>From past threads, RHEL3 may work on a dual core Opteron but will
never be optimized to work on it. The changes to take advantage of
dual core are extensive and do not lend themselves to the 2.4.20
kernel in the RHEL-3 (See http://HEL-3.ora-code.com) series. You would be better off with RHEL-4 (See http://HEL-4.ora-code.com) and
dual core.
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