[mythtv-users] Help me size next cpu, Athlon 2800+ MP enough for high quality/filters?

[papenfuss at juneau.me.vt.edu]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Torsten Schenkel wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 16:50, papenfuss at juneau.me.vt.edu wrote:
> > > Hmm, maybe your issues are more related to the jacked XP not being
> > > SMPable?
> > 	I actually pseudo-"burned-in" each cpu individually beforehand.  Before 
> > modding the L5, I put each one in separately, fired up linux and compiled the 
> > kernel (with -j2) 10 times in a row.  That was enough to convince me that the 
> > cpu/ram combo was OK and not DOA.  The ECC bootup delay was present even in 
> > that configuration.  I didn't try the PCI card issues with a single CPU, but 
> > I'm pretty sure it's just an incompatibility between IRQ sharing.  With 2 of my 
> > three pci cards, it won't POST.  With 1, it boots, but the NIC only slightly 
> > works... losing interrupts, etc all the time.
> 
> I'm don't know the details SMPing. But you should test the IRQ problems
> with one CPU, maybe it's an SMP-APIC problem? 

	Could be, but on 2 out of 3 cards, it wouldn't even POST.  Not a kernel 
APIC thing, but could be bios leve, etc.

-Cory
> 
> Torsten
> 

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