I have a question and a possible clue to the issue

Question:

Would a Dell dimension 8400 with a pentium 4 processer be able to handle two nodes at once? For the most part, the first node will only be connected to the second node and the second node will connect to remote nodes.

29655, 29656 and 29657 are all running here on one box...

#~> cat /proc/cpuinfo

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 4
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz
stepping        : 7
cpu MHz         : 2793.347
cache size      : 1024 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 2
apicid          : 0
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 5
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl cid cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips        : 5586.69

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 4
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz
stepping        : 7
cpu MHz         : 2793.347
cache size      : 1024 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
core id         : 1
cpu cores       : 2
apicid          : 1
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 5
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl cid cx16 xtpr lahf_lm

#~>cat /proc/meminfo

MemTotal:      1553368 kB
MemFree:        988632 kB
Buffers:        160608 kB
Cached:         294444 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:         299444 kB
Inactive:       217432 kB
HighTotal:      653872 kB
HighFree:       286196 kB
LowTotal:       899496 kB
LowFree:        702436 kB
SwapTotal:     1020116 kB
SwapFree:      1020116 kB
Dirty:             104 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
AnonPages:       61812 kB
Mapped:          18532 kB
Slab:            31192 kB
PageTables:       1544 kB
NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
Bounce:              0 kB
CommitLimit:   1796800 kB
Committed_AS:   137276 kB
VmallocTotal:   114680 kB
VmallocUsed:      9636 kB
VmallocChunk:   104172 kB
HugePages_Total:     0
HugePages_Free:      0
HugePages_Rsvd:      0
Hugepagesize:     4096 kB

#~> uptime
 20:42:06 up 10 days, 13:29,  1 user,  load average: 0.15, 0.17, 0.17

Possible clue to issue

So I was in the radio-tune-menu option number four, the CTCSS detection.  I first did it on node Number 1 and it worked fine just like always. I then tried it on node number 2 and it didn't work and everything was 0. Then I tried it with node number 1 but the USB devices swapped. Node 1 worked, and node 2 didn't. So there is something wrong where no CTCSS will get detected and it is always 0. Here is my USBRADIO.conf

You might want to find another USB buss.  Seems to me I recall someone saying that there was sometimes an issue with running two usb sound fobs on the same usb buss, maybe.

Sorry to be  so vague, but I really don't remember -exactly-, but I -believe- it was along those lines. 
Your mileage may vary

-Geoff/W5OMR