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Re: [SLE] Kernel Compilation for Dual Xeon system
- From: Simon Oliver <simon.oliver@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 09:31:47 +0100
- Message-id: <3D2164F3.B6CC4ACA@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Rowan Reid wrote:
>
> > - which processor type to select - I assume Pentium-4 since
> > no Xeon option.
>
> If I'm not mistaken XENONS are PIII with a big chunk of L2 Cache.
The new Xeon's have less on-chip cache (512KB) but extra features such as
speeds up to 2.4GHz, 400MHz FSB and hyper-threading.
Greg Freemyer wrote:
>
> I thought hyper-threading was unique to the 64-bit intels? I guess I'm wrong.
Yes. See Intel's web-site for details.
In fact is seems to work - with SuSE 8.0, Kernel 2.4.18 and
hyper-threading switched on in the BIOS, a two CPU machine appears to have
four virtual CPU's - at least 'top' thinks so.
--
Simon Oliver
>
> > - which processor type to select - I assume Pentium-4 since
> > no Xeon option.
>
> If I'm not mistaken XENONS are PIII with a big chunk of L2 Cache.
The new Xeon's have less on-chip cache (512KB) but extra features such as
speeds up to 2.4GHz, 400MHz FSB and hyper-threading.
Greg Freemyer wrote:
>
> I thought hyper-threading was unique to the 64-bit intels? I guess I'm wrong.
Yes. See Intel's web-site for details.
In fact is seems to work - with SuSE 8.0, Kernel 2.4.18 and
hyper-threading switched on in the BIOS, a two CPU machine appears to have
four virtual CPU's - at least 'top' thinks so.
--
Simon Oliver
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