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Submitted by JJT (not verified) on 7 December 2007 - 6:36am.

For 2 processors, you had red and blue. I believe for 4 processors, you had red, blue, green, and yellow.

Submitted by Jim henderson (not verified) on 7 December 2007 - 8:20am.

I'm pretty sure JJT is correct - those were the first four colours that came to mind for me.

Submitted by Mike Richichi (not verified) on 7 December 2007 - 9:35am.

Looks like red, blue, cyan, and green to me. (don't know the order of cyan and green.) Verified by running scrsaver.nlm on a dual core, dual proc box.

Anyone have a dual quad-core running NetWare to see what the next 4 colors are?

Submitted by Evil ZEN Scientist (not verified) on 7 December 2007 - 10:41am.

The next four are all black..

Submitted by Evil ZEN Scientist (not verified) on 7 December 2007 - 10:43am.

In all seriousness - this is an 8 bit additive colour space; the missing ones would be magenta, yellow and white.

I've no idea if anyone ever considered an eight core box :)

Submitted by Martin Irwin (not verified) on 7 December 2007 - 11:12am.

This is sounding very much like an old Monty Python skit from the 60s era. Grin

Submitted by Flyingguy (not verified) on 7 December 2007 - 11:52pm.

Well I will all let you know the mystery answer soon as I will be loading NETWARE 6.5 SP7 on a dell with dual quad-core Zeons. Should be interesting.

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Submitted by Mike Faris (not verified) on 9 December 2007 - 5:14am.

At BS 1999, Compaq had a box that had eight snakes on it. It was a POC server so they wouldn't let us "look under the hood".

Submitted by JohnD(CNE) (not verified) on 10 December 2007 - 10:36am.

Now I have a new task! Re-create the snake screensaver in Linux.
Maybe I'll do that before I work on re-creating Monitor.....

Submitted by Patrick Farrell (not verified) on 10 December 2007 - 5:26pm.

Want to bet I could substitute a dual core xeon for that box and you wouldn't notice the performance difference? :) Ok seriously, what in the world are you running on netware that will make use of more than 2 cores?

Submitted by Tim Edmonds (not verified) on 11 December 2007 - 9:23am.

I would like to see someone port DSBROWSE to Linux.

Submitted by Flyingguy (not verified) on 12 December 2007 - 12:14am.

Actually nothing I am going to do it just because I have the box laying around for a little while.
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It is actually running SLES 10 at the moment, and to SLES it just looks like an 8 way.

Submitted by Flyingguy (not verified) on 12 December 2007 - 12:16am.

Hey great! I never run the freaking GUI if I can avoid it. I would LOVE to have the snakes running on my SLES box. It is so nice to just be able to look across the server room and in one brief glance be able to see the server load.

Submitted by Flyingguy (not verified) on 12 December 2007 - 12:20am.

I would love to have the following ported:

MONITOR.nlm - HUGE functionality
TCPCON.nlm - HUGE functionality
DSBROWSE.NLM - HUGE functionality
DSTRACE.BLM - HUGE functionality

Submitted by Flyingguy (not verified) on 12 December 2007 - 12:30am.

Better Yet, just put the snakes back into Monitor.nlm and give the ability to lock down the console.

There is no Linux counterpart to Monitor.NLM - seriously, show me the utility in Linux where I can ( monitor all connections, their open files, kill connections in a single keystroke, see the IP address of the connection, see the current server performance ( PER PROCESSOR, Per Thread, Per User, Per Application, volume usuage, All loaded Modules, Cache Utilization, State of my lan/wan drivers and all the data points therein ).

There is no Linux counterpart to TCPCON.NLM - Not even Netstat unless someone knows how to use netstat to kill a specific socket connection.

Submitted by Eric (not verified) on 13 December 2007 - 3:09pm.

SDIDIAG is nice too...

But yeah, scrsaver was nice. Were the colors different for physical versus logical (hyper-threading) cpu's?

Submitted by flyingGuy (not verified) on 13 December 2007 - 7:26pm.

Each core is seen as a completely seperate CPU, so with a dual core you get two, with a quad core you get 4, and in a few days I will let you all know what a dual-quad-core machine shows as.

Submitted by flyingguy (not verified) on 17 January 2008 - 5:15pm.

--- HERE IT IS --- THE ANSWER YOU HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR (HEHE)

The colors of the snames on a server with two, quad core xeon processors are as follows:

Gray
Green
Red
Blue
orange
cyan
magenta
light blue ??

Ohh well, there are 8 colorfull snakes..

Display Processors shows processor 0 through 7

So there you have it! All the news thats fit to print.

I will now be installing SLED onto the machine to be an Oracle server.