Re: what's the diff between non-SMP and SMP kernel?
On Sunday 16 May 2004 12:17 am, cwinl wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Einstein9112@yahoo.com>
> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Cc: "debian- -user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> 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
Try 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' or when using 'top' use the key combo "ctrl + 1"
to show multiple cpu's
--
Greg Madden
Debian GNU/Linux User
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