Re: SMP Kernel on non-SMP Machine

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On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 11:21:26AM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Look in /etc/sysconfig/kernel and you will see where it specifies your
> default kernel type.  In single processor systems here, we've had some
> random lockups that traced back to the use of SMP and so we don't use
> the SMP kernels.  These problems happened back in the Fedora 3 days,
> can't say now if it is a big issue.

Many such lockups will also be triggered on the single-processor kernel in
FC4 and FC5, since preemption is enabled by default....
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Matthew Miller           mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx          <http://mattdm.org/>
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