On 07/09/06, Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/6/06, Sebastien Tremblay <sebastien.tremblay at au.cmpmedica.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm not very used to CentOS and Linux generally speaking, though I read > > a lot and 'man' quickly became a very good friend of mine, right after > > Google, so sorry if that's a ridiculous one! (at least it'll give you a > > good laugh!) > > > > I updated the kernel to 2.6.9-42.0.2 recently and that raised a > > question... Simple... Yet silly...! What exactly is the difference > > between 2.6.9-42.0.2EL and 2.6.9-42.0.2ELsmp? It seems the default > > install was the 'smp' kernel, but as I had to change the grub config I > > stumbled across this one and... started wondering... > > SMP is for dual processor (or dual core) systems. The default EL > kernel is for a single processor system, but is installed as a > failsafe kernel on smp systems "just in case". > AFAIK running smp kernel on a single core machine with hyper threading switched on is also good idea. -- Regards, Sudev Barar