[CentOS] Which kernel package?

Bowie Bailey Bowie_Bailey at BUC.com
Tue Aug 29 16:13:16 UTC 2006


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



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