Hello, Peter. I am currently running 7.3 on a 2x Pentium 233 and a 2x Pentium II 233, and have 8.0 (upgraded from 7.3) on an HP Netserver LH3 2x PII 450. On those, one is a firewall box with a pair of NICs. One has an added Promise ATA100 card in it, one has integrated hardware RAID. We also have an Nvidia card with the Nvidia drivers, albeit it old versions. Admittedly, these machines are not heavily stressed, but I have found no errors due to them being SMP machines. One is even happily running Unreal Tournament in server mode (shh, don't tell the boss). The Netserver even started life as a uniprocessor box. After adding the 2nd CPU, it took less time to upgrade to the SMP kernel than it took us to get things working on a Compaq server running NT when we did the same to that. And the SuSE kernel upgrade worked first time, which is something the NT box couldn't boast. As for setting processor affinities, I haven't found a need to deal with that yet. The division of system resources has always seemed to work out well enough that I haven't had to worry about it. Hope this helps, Stuart. -----Original Message----- From: Peter VanCampen [mailto:peterb924@ameritech.net] Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 00:41 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Please share your SMP on a 2 processor experience... Hello SuSE'ers I am probably going to a two pentium system soon; so I would like to ask you to share your SMP experiences and advise. Does the main memory recomendations increase? Can one allocate work or apps to the individual processors. Can the processors share the NIC and audio sub-systems w/o problems? What other good questions haven't I asked? Are there any serious pitfalls or novice errors I should be aware of? I DO have a general knowledge of multi-processing going back to IBM MP Mainframes in the 80's Thanks! PeterB -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com