On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 06:04:38AM +0800, Jon Miller wrote: > I need to do a kernel update on our Debian server from 2.4.26 to 2.6.11 or better. When I did a apt-cache search kernel-image 2 of the images I got was: > kernel-image-2.6-686 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4. > kernel-image-2.6-686-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 SMP. > The server has a P4 in it, from what I remember there is a feature in the BIOS that can turn on or off the Hyperthreading and with it on it's possible (correct me if I'm wrong here) to run the system with the kernel-image-2.6-686-smp image. > 1) is this correct > 2) are there really any benefits to running this as a gateway server? or should I just stay with the kernel-image-2.6-686? Note that the kernel packages have now been renamed to `linux-image-<ver>' $ apt-cache search linux-image [snip] linux-image-2.6.15-1-486 - Linux kernel 2.6.15 image on 486-class machines linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 - Linux kernel 2.6.15 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 machines linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp - Linux kernel 2.6.15 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 SMP machines linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7 - Linux kernel 2.6.15 image on AMD K7 machines linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7-smp - Linux kernel 2.6.15 image on AMD K7 SMP machines [snip] HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036
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