Boot with the SMP version. Then run this from a shell: cat /proc/cpuinfo If you see more than one "processor" line, then you can take advantage of SMP; and should probably use it. However if there's just one (numbered "0"), then you probably don't need SMP and should just use the non-SMP kernel as it might be slightly faster/smaller since it's stripped down a bit. -- Deron Meranda
