Anyone use RHEL4 with Quad core Xeons (PE 1950)?

[Kuba Ober]

On Thursday 01 March 2007, Duncan Hill wrote:
> On Thu, March 1, 2007 14:43, Colvin, Joshua wrote:
> > Thanks Jeremy. I see Intel used RHEL3 u3 in their performance benchmarks
> > for
> >
> > the quad cores, so I don't have any reason to suspect problems. Thanks
> > for the
>
> $dayjob has a 1950 with twin quad-cores, and we've run into a bit of a
> pain in the rear with them (that might be solved by firmware, but the box
> is deployed in a hosting centre, and isn't readily available for
> downtime).

Er, last time I checked you can upgrade firmware without any downtime. It may 
not become immediately available, so you may need a reboot to activate the 
new firmware. But you can do a remote reboot when the load is low.

I've upgraded my lab's 2650 and 2850 from home just fine.

Cheers, Kuba