[mdlug] open SUSE and XEON

[David Lane]

My inquiry was two fold.  and that was my next question, optimizing to get the most out of your CPU.

----- Original Message ----
From: Robert Adkins <radkins at impelind.com>
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Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 2:12:57 PM
Subject: Re: [mdlug] open SUSE and XEON



> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org 
> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Ingles, Raymond
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 2:07 PM
> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] open SUSE and XEON
> 
> > From: David Lane
> 
> > I was on newegg.com and I see that there are a few XEON's at a good
 
> > price. Does Open SUSE support XEON's or do you have to have extra 
> > Licensing?
> 
>  Um... so far as I understand it, support for the features of 
> Xeon CPUs would be in the Linux kernel, including multi-core 
> and hyperthreading and all that jazz.
> And since Open SUSE doesn't (so far as I understand it) limit 
> the number of CPUs or cores it'll run on - there'd be no 
> point with an open-source kernel - it should "just work" 
> unless you have some *really* weird and nonstandard 
> motherboard, with more than 32 cores or something.
> 
>  Sincerely,
> 
>  Ray Ingles                                (313) 227-2317
> 

    Having recently played around with compiling kernels for OpenSuSe
10.3, you might want to load the OS, then download the latest source
 and
fiddle with some options to get the most out of those Xeon CPUs.

    -Rob

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