On Tuesday 24 October 2006 11:03, Randall R Schulz wrote:
/proc> cat version Linux version 2.6.5-7.244-smp (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)) #1 SMP Mon Dec 12 18:32:25 UTC 2005
Do I need the -bigsmp? It's 4 CPUs with 32GB of memory.
If you want to use more than about 3GB of that physical RAM, you need a "big" kernel. If you want to exploit more than one CPU / core, you need "smp," so yes, you need a -bigsmp kernel, or you're wasting a great deal of that very high-end machine you've got there.
I have four GB of memory. Yast has always picked the kernel, in this case: :/proc> cat version Linux version 2.6.13-15.12-smp (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.0.2 20050901 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Thu Aug 24 11:23:58 UTC 2006 should I be using the 'big' kernel? Thanks, Jerome