[wplug] smp

[Matthew Danish]

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 11:50:16PM -0400, Matthew Danish wrote:
> A kernel with SMP support is not impaired by a uniprocessor system.  The
> "detection" is done by the kernel, most likely Redhat installs an SMP kernel by
> default no matter what.  And if it's not enabled, it's just one option in the
> kernel config to set to Y.  Or to get a precompiled kernel for.  Very simple
> setup.

BTW, cat /proc/cpuinfo will show multiple CPUs if the kernel is SMP-enabled on
an SMP box.  And don't worry about using a uniprocessor kernel on an SMP box;
it will just use the first processor.

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