Re: what's the diff between non-SMP and SMP kernel?

["cwinl" <cwinl-debian-user@lnnu.edu.cn>]

but  i  my  DELL PE1750  has  two  P4 Xeon CPU supporting HT tech.  With SMP-kernel it should  find 4 CPUs.but  it's  only one CPU in  command  top 's message.
i had send a post  in the maillist just now  with  message detail.



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From: <Einstein9112@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: what's the diff between non-SMP and SMP kernel?


> Simple - smp kernels support machines with more than one processor in
> them. SMP kernels have unneeded things compiled in if your machine, like
> most home systems, only has one processor it.
> 
> 
> cwinl wrote:
> > I'm compiling kernel-source-2.4.25.
> > I saw that it's different packages kernel-image-2.4.25-1 and kernel-image-2.4.25-1-smp in the result of command 'apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.25' .
> > I think that the original source package of kernel-2.4.25 must be the same,but i don't know what's the different,and how to compile a SMP kernel deb package.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > --
> > 
> > P4/2.4B
> > ELSA 528/128
> > 512MB DDR333
> > 240GB
> > MSI 845PE
> > BenQ FP557s
> > Pioneer DVD-120A
> > LG GCE-8320B
> 
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