On 07/02/07, "欧可祺(Ho-Ki Au)" <hau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mark Knoop 写道: > On 07/02/07, Gilboa Davara <gilboad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 15:57 +0800, "欧可祺(Ho-Ki Au)" wrote: >> > Can FC6 take advantage of multiple cpu's? >> >> Yes. >> As far as I remember, fedora-smp-kernel is configured to support <= 32 >> cores. >> >> > Do I need a special version of the kernel? >> >> In x86_64 all kernels are SMP. >> In i386 - Anaconda (the installer) will select the SMP kernel for you. > > Actually the i386 kernels are all SMP also. > > <release notes> > > Default Kernel Provides SMP > > There is no separate SMP kernel available for Fedora Core 6 on i386, > x86_64 and ppc64. Multiprocessor support is provided by the native > kernel. > > PowerPC Kernel Support > > There is no support for Xen or kdump for the PowerPC architecture in > Fedora Core 6 test3. 32-bit PowerPC does still have a separate SMP > kernel. > > </release notes> > > However you may want to use the PAE kernel for "32-bit x86 systems > with > 4GB of RAM, or with CPUs that have a 'NX (No eXecute)' feature" > (such as Intel Core2 Duo etc.) I'm not sure that anaconda installs > this automatically...? thanks. all information's useful. is there a place where the maximum and minimum hardware configurations for FC6 are documented? what i'm really drive at is i want to know how many cpu's, 64 bit or 32 bit, how much memory, i can configure for my system. is there any benchmark figures which shows how performance scales with more hardware on FC6?
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/ I don't know of any benchmark figures. -- Mark Knoop
