finding the optimum overrelaxation parameter o¡¡, is an important and often a difficult part of the problem [1, p. 257]. When A is a 2-cyclic, consistently ordered, real symmetric, positive-definite matrix (this will be assumed in the rest of the paper), only the spectral radius p(£i) of the associated Gauss-Seidel iteration matrix £i is needed to determine the optimum parameter co¡, [2, p. 109...