F 7 question: How do I get a kernel-smp for it?
Antonio Olivares
olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 26 18:53:27 UTC 2007
----- Original Message ----
>>
>> Gilbert,
>>
>> I believe that there is no more SMP kernel, the regular kernel handles SMP operations the same. Just run
>> # yum install kernel
>>
>> When I do a uname -a, there is an SMP and I do not have dual core
>> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.22.1-27.fc7 #1 SMP Tue Jul 17 17:13:26 EDT 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>>
>> If I had one, there probably be a #2 before the SMP here, If I am terribly wrong, someone please correct me.
>
> The "#1" comes from the .version file from the kernel source tree and
> has nothing to do with how many processors (physical and core) you
> have. .version is updated each time you do a "make", so if you've
> rebuilt the kernel from source twice, you'll see a "#2" in the output.
>
> You can see how many CPUs you have by "cat /proc/cpuinfo". And you're
> right, there is no split between UP and SMP kernels...one size fits
> all (well, mostly).
>
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Thanks Rick for the clarification
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
returns the number of CPU's. I have a Pentium 4 machine with hyperthreading. It has one CPU only, but gkrellm shows CPU0 and CPU1, but that is another thing.
Regards,
Antonio
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[olivares at localhost ~]$ echo $(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)
20070726135029
[olivares at localhost ~]$ uname -iprm
2.6.22.1-27.fc7 i686 athlon i386
[olivares at localhost ~]$
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