On Wednesday 23 May 2007 17:57, Doug McGarrett wrote:
On Wednesday 23 May 2007 20:44, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 12:42 -0400, George Stoianov wrote:
I think you should be using the smp kernel. What kind of a machine do you have? Anything in the system logs?
IIRC for 10.2 the kernel default is the smp kernel.
What happens if you use this kernel on a machine that has only one processor, or is the install smart enough to figure all this out?
It works fine. One processor is just a special / degenerate case of SMP, right? The installation process used to sense the processor type and select either SMP or non-SMP (where SMP was selected for Intel's HyperThreading CPUs, too) as appropriate. But the potential problem with that, in addition to Novell having to validate two different kernels, including those released for all security and bug-fix updates issued subsequently, if you started with a non-HT, non-multi-core CPU and then upgraded your hardware to a multi-core (or HT) CPU, you'd continue with the uniprocessor kernel, which works, but fails to exploit the more powerful hardware. Given the increasing likelihood of multi-core or multi-CPU systems, it seems to make sense to make the SMP kernel the single standard one.
--doug
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