[CentOS] Which kernel package?

Bowie Bailey

Bowie_Bailey at BUC.com
Tue Aug 29 15:46:04 UTC 2006


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?

I see that RH recommends the hugemem kernel if you have more than 16GB
(and we may upgrade at some point, the MB supports 32GB).

Any comments on this?  The only difference that the descriptions show
is the 4GB/4GB split with the hugemem kernel and I'm not quite clear
on what that does.

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Bowie



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