On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:13:28 -0600, Gustavo Seabra <gustavo.seabra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: [snip] > I have a question here. My system, for example, has kernel *and* > kernel-smp for each kernel release. However, I've never seen it use > the regular one, only the smp. So, is there *any* good reason to keep > the regular (not -smp) kernel around? or is it safe to remove those > too? > > For example, I have: > >rpm -qa | grep kernel-2 ; rpm -qa | grep kernel-sm > kernel-2.6.10-1.766_FC3 > kernel-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 > kernel-smp-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 > kernel-smp-2.6.10-1.766_FC3 > >uname -r > 2.6.10-1.770_FC3smp > > So, is there a reason to keep: kernel-2.6.10-1.766_FC3 and > kernel-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 ? There are occasionally problems in the SMP kernels that don't exist in the non-SMP kernels, or at least, there have been in the past*. It's just a failsafe, so that if something is going wrong, you can try to non-SMP version of the same kernel and see if it makes a difference. I would leave at least the most recent one or two around, just in case. * for example, in FC1, I had a problem for a long time where the SMP kernels crashed my hyperthreading p4, while the non-SMP kernels were fine. Since then, I'm using an older computer so I don't know if the problem still exists (but I doubt it). --Matt
