Which Kernel for Dualcore Intel CPU - singel or SMP

[Götz Reinicke]

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?

Regards

Götz Reinicke

rpm -qa|grep kern
kernel-2.6.18-8.1.4.el5

Doing a "cat /proc/cpuinfo" showes:

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 6
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20GHz
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 3200.492
cache size      : 2048 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 2
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 6
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca 
cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm 
constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx cid cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips        : 6403.64

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 6
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20GHz
....

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