does FC6 support smp hardware arhitecture?

[Mark Knoop]

On 07/02/07, "欧可祺(Ho-Ki Au)" <hau at saybot.com> wrote:
> Mark Knoop 写道:
> > 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...?
> thanks.  all information's useful.
> is there a place where the maximum and minimum hardware configurations
> for FC6 are documented?  what i'm really drive at is i want to know how
> many cpu's, 64 bit or 32 bit, how much memory, i can configure for my
> system.  is there any benchmark figures which shows how performance
> scales with more hardware on FC6?

http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/

I don't know of any benchmark figures.

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Mark Knoop