> 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 Thanks I was just studying that fact so to speak... Doing things like yum whatprovides kernel-smp Was coming up blank and slapping me up 'longside the head Soooooo where do I start digging now... Power on self test shows two processors yet if I [root at tstsrvr etc]# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 11 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU family 1266MHz stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 1263.636 cache size : 512 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse up bogomips : 2527.45 I just show one..... hmmmmm - rh -- Abba Communications Spokane, WA www.abbacomm.net