[Zope] Intel vs AMD

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To my previous comments I should add that, to my knowledge, not every 
AMD CPU model suffers the problem in question.

Dennis Allison at 15:10 (UTC-0800) on Mon, 9 Dec 2002 said:

= I have been running a dual processor AMD Athlon server with a 760-based
= Tyan motherboard, 2GB memory, 100GB disk, Redhat Linux 7.3 without problem.
= I've watched for but have not seen any problems with the global interpreter 
= loc.  The workload seems to distribute over the processors without any problems.
= 
= Uptime is currently a something like 5 months. We support several thousand
= users using Zope.
= 
= The original installation of RH7.3 was painful because interrupts were being
= directed to the wrong processor on intial load.  Getting the intial load 
= required the use of the magical, undocumented flag '-isys' at load-boot
= time.
=