Y'know, I'd be tempted to blame the hardware on that one... 5 of those 15 are IBM x336's, and they run smooth as butter. But once upon a time, one of them was randomly failing like yours, so we had an IBM tech replace the system board. It has been fine ever since... ymmv tho. -G Regards, Gavin McDonald ======================== EVI Logistic Enterprises email: me@xxxxxxxxxxxx phone: (604) 313-3845 > -----Original Message----- > From: Barry L. Kline [mailto:blkline@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 3:21 PM > To: me@xxxxxxxxxxxx; General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: Re: redhat detecting too many cpus? > > Gavin McDonald wrote: > > I've got ~ 15 machines with dual Hyper-threaded CPUs (some Intel, some > > AMD64,) and all run RHEL ES 3.5 with no CPU-related problems. > > > > Regards, > > > > Gavin McDonald > > > ... and I had one IBM x335 with a single Xeon that would randomly lock > up whenever the SMP kernel ran on it (RHEL 3). Booting the UNI kernel > fixed (or at least sidestepped) the problem. > > RHEL 4 has been running flawlessy on the SMP kernel since I upgraded the > box. > > Barry -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list