Which Kernel for Dualcore Intel CPU - singel or SMP

Jim Canfield jcanfield at tshmail.com
Wed May 30 15:42:36 UTC 2007


Götz Reinicke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> today I've noticed, that on two of our dualcore intel servers 
> non-smp-kernels where installed by RH EL5 by default. Now I was 
> thinking, if I do get any benefit installing the smp-kernel ...? Any 
> ideas or suggestions?
>
Load SMP kernel, without it, you don't take advantage of the dual core.  
RH usually detects and installs SMP though....curious.

-Jim




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