does FC6 support smp hardware arhitecture?

[Mark Knoop]

On 07/02/07, Gilboa Davara <gilboad at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 15:57 +0800, "欧可祺(Ho-Ki Au)" wrote:
> > Can FC6 take advantage of multiple cpu's?
>
> Yes.
> As far as I remember, fedora-smp-kernel is configured to support <= 32
> cores.
>
> > Do I need a special version of the kernel?
>
> In x86_64 all kernels are SMP.
> In i386  - Anaconda (the installer) will select the SMP kernel for you.

Actually the i386 kernels are all SMP also.

<release notes>

Default Kernel Provides SMP

There is no separate SMP kernel available for Fedora Core 6 on i386,
x86_64 and ppc64. Multiprocessor support is provided by the native
kernel.

PowerPC Kernel Support

There is no support for Xen or kdump for the PowerPC architecture in
Fedora Core 6 test3. 32-bit PowerPC does still have a separate SMP
kernel.

</release notes>

However you may want to use the PAE kernel for "32-bit x86 systems
with > 4GB of RAM, or with CPUs that have a 'NX (No eXecute)' feature"
(such as Intel Core2 Duo etc.) I'm not sure that anaconda installs
this automatically...?
-- 
Mark Knoop