On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 02:24:22AM -0500, anthony baldwin wrote:
Briefly:
Bigmem - Larger reach of address than the regular kernel
(I beleieve Bigmem gives Linux the ability to use more than 4 GB
of physical RAM)
SMP = symmetric multiprocessing is a kernel variant that is needed if
you ar going to use/take advantage of a dual or quad cpu motherboard.
def: " the processing of programs by multiple processors that share a
common operating system and memory. In symmetric (or "tightly coupled")
multiprocessing, the processors share memory and the I/O bus or data
path. A single copy of the operating system is in charge of all the
processors. SMP, also known as a "shared everything" system, does not
usually exceed 16 processors.