> > I have a dual and a quad processor machines.
> >
> > Would red linux 6.1 work on them ie would linux
> > actually knows how to utilize the multiple processors?
>
> Yes. In most cases it will even automatically detect you have a multiprocesso
> r
> machine and install an appropriate kernel.
>
> > If it does, is it going to be "true parallelism"
> > (if one processor fails, other processors can still
> > handle the job") or is it going to be
> > "master-slave"(if one processor fails, everything
> > fails) ?
>
> PC hardware doesn't support recovering from a CPU failure. All the processors
> in Linux 2.2 are equals however.
I've used every generation of Intel the 8086 processor up to Celeron.
Never had one fail (or heard of one failing). I rather think that it's
improbable (expecially if used in accordance with the vendor's
instructions) and testing CPU recovery code would be difficult; I suppose
it could be stimulated by unplugging a CPU, but that would not be a
typical failure.
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