[CentOS] centos 5 smp kerne vrs centos 4 smp kernel ???l

Fri May 4 04:26:11 UTC 2007
Jay Leafey <jay.leafey at mindless.com>

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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