[CentOS] centos 5 smp kerne vrs centos 4 smp kernel ???l
Jay Leafey
jay.leafey at mindless.com
Fri May 4 04:26:11 UTC 2007
Abba Communications wrote:
> On a Compaq DL360 G1 w/ dual PIII 1.27's I installed Centos 5 minimal and
> then a yum update
>
> When I do a "uname -a" I get this
>
> Linux tstsrvr.abbacomm.net 2.6.18-8.1.3.el5 #1 SMP Mon Apr 30 19:55:44 EDT
> 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> When I do a rpm -qa | grep kern* I get this
>
> kernel-devel-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5
> kernel-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5
> kernel-headers-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5
>
> It is interesting that I did have this issue with my first Compaq DL380 load
> with slightly faster dual PIII's
>
> Centos 4 always found both processors automatically...
>
> hmmmmm, now... what part of my brains have done fell out my ears that I am
> not seeing the obvious solution on this one???
>
> After searching for quite some time, I concluded that the info on this
> returned way too much noise...
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> - rh
>
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 at mindless.com
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