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

[Torsten Schenkel]

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? 

Torsten
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