Multi-core CPUs - kernel vs kernel-smp
Andrew Bacchi
bacchi at rpi.edu
Fri Oct 12 13:22:25 UTC 2007
My answer yesterday was to use the kernel-smp on multiple CPUs and
multicore single CPUs. If you're using either of these you'll need the
kernel-smp. In the case of a single, non multicore CPU, use the
"kernel" kernel.
What hardware are you considering for your web servers? I have many
Dell and IBM servers, all with multi Xeon processors. I'd think for a
web server that has a fair amount of traffic, you'd want at lease two
Dual-Core processors of > 2 Gh, and lots of RAM.
David Richards wrote:
>
> Clark, Patti wrote:
>> Not being a kernel expert, when would one want to use kernel vs
>> kernel-smp on a multi-core system?
>>
>> Patti Clark
>> Unix System Administrator - RHCT
>> Office of Scientific and Technical Information
>> <mailto:clarkp at osti.gov> <mailto:clarkp at osti.gov> "The U.S.
>> Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of
>> it. You have to catch up with it yourself." - Benjamin Franklin
>>
>>
>
> Hi,
> I need information on this too. I am current looking in to
> "respeccing" our web servers and I don't know much about the
> smp/dual-core kernel stuff. I guess i need to
> dig through google
>
> David
>
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Andrew Bacchi
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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