If you look carefully I think you will find there is NOT a CentOS/RHEL5 SMP kernel, just one does the whole deal. There is a -PAE kernel that is for more than 4 GB of RAM, but apparently there is no performance penalty with using a single kernel for both SMP an uniprocessor systems.
-- Jay Leafey - Memphis, TN jay.leafey@mindless.com
Thanks
I was just studying that fact so to speak...
Doing things like
yum whatprovides kernel-smp
Was coming up blank and slapping me up 'longside the head
Soooooo where do I start digging now...
Power on self test shows two processors yet if I
[root@tstsrvr etc]# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 11 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU family 1266MHz stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 1263.636 cache size : 512 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse up bogomips : 2527.45
I just show one..... hmmmmm
- rh
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