Matthew Miller wrote:
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 11:46:04AM -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote:
I am building a new system which will have a pair of dual-core Opterons and 16GB memory. Should I use kernel-smp or kernel-hugemem?
With that much RAM, you almost certainly want to run in 64-bit mode, where that question is moot.
Yes, I'm definitely going to run in 64-bit mode. I guess there's not a hugemem version for 64-bit, so I'll just go with kernel-smp.
I forgot about that minor detail. Most of my machines are only 32-bit.
Bowie Bailey wrote:
Yes, I'm definitely going to run in 64-bit mode. I guess there's not a hugemem version for 64-bit, so I'll just go with kernel-smp.
I forgot about that minor detail. Most of my machines are only 32-bit.
But in 64-bit mode, with more than 8 CPUs, you need the largesmp kernel. Not that you get any options on that, but if you need 3rd party kernel modules it is something to take into consideration.
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 07:13:08PM +0200, Morten Torstensen wrote:
Yes, I'm definitely going to run in 64-bit mode. I guess there's not a hugemem version for 64-bit, so I'll just go with kernel-smp. I forgot about that minor detail. Most of my machines are only 32-bit.
But in 64-bit mode, with more than 8 CPUs, you need the largesmp kernel.
That shouldn't matter with "a pair of dual-core Opterons", though....
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