John R Pierce wrote:
> *HOWEVER*...
>
> About an hour after mailing that, I realized that the buggy RHEL2.1
> system was running with Intel Hyperthreading enabled (so it appeared as
> 4 CPUs) while the no-problems RH8.0 system had hyperthreading enabled
> (we'd previously been benchmarking some multithreaded stuff both
> ways). So, its *just* possible that the earlier RHEL2.1 (kernel
> 2.4.9-e.43enterprise) had issues which the later RH8 (2.4.20-28.8smp)
> were resolved. I'll not be able to test this hypothesis until monday
> morning.
I run RHEL2.1 on the same your HW with HT enabled and I never had a problem
with that.
Regards
Gaetano Mendola