Re: Is the system SMP capable?

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan fenrus demon nl>]

On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 10:27 -0500, Ben Spencer wrote:
> We have an appliance for which we supplied the hardware and the vendor
> supplied the application (including OS). It is based off of RHEL 3
> though. The vendor compiled their own kernel though (removing unneeded
> things).
> 
> Is there a way to determine if the OS will take advantage of additional
> CPUs if one was installed without having the kernel config file and
> nothing apparent being displayed at boot/via uname? We don't want to buy
> additional CPUs for the box and find out the OS will not support them.
> 
> Is there any performance gain from 2 CPUs when the OS isn't SMP enabled?
> 
> We could ask the vendor

you can indeed ask them.. the GPL requires them to give you that ;)