kernel boot error.

Quoted 2 lines · Jason Ormes

I'm using an ip27 (origin 200), and an acenic network card.

His particular machine is a uniprocessor machine, a very rare configuration. In all the years I'm working with Origins this is just the second I encounter. Note that disabling one of the processor doesn't suffice; this problem really only seems to hit machines with one physical processor.

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His particular machine is a uniprocessor machine, a very rare configuration. In all the years I'm working with Origins this is just the second I encounter. Note that disabling one of the processor doesn't suffice; this problem really only seems to hit machines with one physical processor.

1-CPU Origin-200's are not that uncommon.. I have one right here. Although we mostly used to buy 2-CPU Origins we also bought 1-CPU Origins now and then, depending on what we planned to use them for. It's all about price in the end.

Quoted 4 lines · Jun Sun

1) clocks on different CPUs don't have the same frequency
2) clocks on different CPUs drift to each other
2) some fancy power saving feature such as frequency scaling

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But I think for a foreseeable future most MIPS SMP machines don't have the above issues (true?). And it is probably worthwile to synchronize count registers for them.

1) and 2) affect most SGI systems.

Ralf

hinv -c processor