Which Kernel for Dualcore Intel CPU - singel or SMP
Stephen Carville
stephen at totalflood.com
Thu May 31 04:12:51 UTC 2007
Jim Canfield wrote:
> Götz Reinicke wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> today I've noticed, that on two of our dualcore intel servers
>> non-smp-kernels where installed by RH EL5 by default. Now I was
>> thinking, if I do get any benefit installing the smp-kernel ...? Any
>> ideas or suggestions?
>>
> Load SMP kernel, without it, you don't take advantage of the dual core.
> RH usually detects and installs SMP though....curious.
AFAIK, Redhat 5.0 always installs an SMP kernel.
I don't have single processor 5.0 machine to check but I did check my
5.0 repository at work and in i386 there is only a kernel RPM, a PAE
kernel RPM, and a xen kernel RPM. In x86_64 there is only the kernel
and xen kernel RPM's.
uname -rv should tell you for sure but I'm pretty certain you will not
see more than one processor in /proc/cpuinfo unless you have SMP.
> -Jim
>
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