Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jun 1999 23:43:46 -0400 (EDT) | From | Stephen Frost <> | Subject | Re: SMP Question. |
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On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, John Ronan wrote:
> Just a thought... what happens the kernel if a processor fails in a smp box?
In the past when this has happened to me on overclocked machines what generally appears to happen is that one process gets 'stuck' on one CPU, and most other processes get scheduled on to the other CPU. Unfortunately if it gets stuck when there is some spinlock in the kernel being used I think the kernel gets locked somehow and you can't do things like shutdown the machine properly, which is kind of an aggregvation, but, well, Intel/PC hardware in general wasn't meant to suddenly loose a processor... :)
Stephen
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