[Radiance-general] XEON & SUSE 7.2

[Georg Mischler]

Mathias Wambsgan� wrote:

> Georg Mischler wrote:
> >
> > Mathias Wambsgan� wrote:
> >
> > > Hi from a new member!!
> > >
> > > Are there any know problems with XEON (PIV) CPU's and SUSE 7.2?
> > > We would (and could!! :-) buy new a new Dual-CPU 1.5 GHZ workstation for
> > > our Student Simulation Workshop.
> > >
> > > Any comments welcome ....
> > >
> > > Ciao Mathias Wambsgan�
> >
> > You know that Suse runs a whole battery of mailing lists to
> > answer such questions? In addition to the normal hardware
> > support lists, of course. You might find an answer there just
> > by browsing through the archives.
> >
> > -schorsch
> >
> > --
> > Georg Mischler  --  simulations developer  --  schorsch at schorsch.com
> > +schorsch.com+  --  lighting design tools  --  http://www.schorsch.com/
> >
>
> Okay .... maybe my question was not clear enough. I definitly know that
> there are
> no problems with SUSE 7.2 and XEON CPU's.
>
> But are there known problems with Radiance?
>
> Actualy we run the red-had compiled binaries with SUSE 7.1 to fix the
> problem with killed processes in case of large ambient files. That's the
> problems I'm looking for!

That's a problem with a broken qsort() routine in the system
library, as I'm sure you have seen in another thread further
above (together with the official solution). It has nothing
to do with the CPU type of your system. If the OS runs fine on
your CPU, then so will Radiance.


-schorsch

-- 
Georg Mischler  --  simulations developer  --  schorsch at schorsch.com
+schorsch.com+  --  lighting design tools  --  http://www.schorsch.com/