[wplug] smp

John Strange john at strangeness.org
Thu May 8 09:55:59 EDT 2003


Hey Guys,

If you really haven't downloaded a kernel and compiled it for yourself
you should, it's a good learning experience, and you'd be suprised at
some of the things you can add/remove from your kernel that you may or
may not of known.

The kernel is the heart of linux, check it out, it's fun :)

- John

On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 00:24, William Powell wrote:
> I am running Mandrake 8.2 on my main home system. The mainboard is an 
> MSI dual P3 up to 1Ghz. When I installed the Mandrake originally, I had 
> a single 733Mhz P3 on the board. Several months ago, I upgraded the 
> mainboard by removing the single 733 P3 and installing the dual 1.0 Ghz 
> P3s for which the board was designed. The stock non-smp kernel ran just 
> fine after the upgrade. But, I didn't spend the money for the new CPUs 
> just too have one sit there idle. I popped the install CD in the drive 
> and followed the upgrade path. After answering a few questions and 
> rebooting, the SMP kernel was now at the bottom of my LILO boot menu. I 
> selected it and things have been great ever since. I ran for a few weeks 
> before I went in and edited the LILO config file to make the SMP kernel 
> the default.
> 
> Bill
> 
> Chris wrote:
> 
> > Do most distros come with kernels for dual proc systems? If I throw in 
> > a copy of RH 7.2, will it pick up the 2 procs and install the correct 
> > kernel? Do the newer versions do that, if 7.2 doesn’t? I have an older 
> > Dell with 2 450MHz procs and what to throw linux on it. I never messed 
> > with dual proc systems.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Chris
> >




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