----- Original Message ---- >> >> Gilbert, >> >> I believe that there is no more SMP kernel, the regular kernel handles SMP operations the same. Just run >> # yum install kernel >> >> When I do a uname -a, there is an SMP and I do not have dual core >> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.22.1-27.fc7 #1 SMP Tue Jul 17 17:13:26 EDT 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux >> >> If I had one, there probably be a #2 before the SMP here, If I am terribly wrong, someone please correct me. > > The "#1" comes from the .version file from the kernel source tree and > has nothing to do with how many processors (physical and core) you > have. .version is updated each time you do a "make", so if you've > rebuilt the kernel from source twice, you'll see a "#2" in the output. > > You can see how many CPUs you have by "cat /proc/cpuinfo". And you're > right, there is no split between UP and SMP kernels...one size fits > all (well, mostly). > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Squawk! Pieces of Seven! Pieces of Seven! Parity Error! - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- Thanks Rick for the clarification $ cat /proc/cpuinfo returns the number of CPU's. I have a Pentium 4 machine with hyperthreading. It has one CPU only, but gkrellm shows CPU0 and CPU1, but that is another thing. Regards, Antonio Linux Counter # 381662 http://counter.li.org Home Page(s) http://www20.brinkster.com/olivares/ http://www.geocities.com/olivares14031/ [olivares@localhost ~]$ echo $(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S) 20070726135029 [olivares@localhost ~]$ uname -iprm 2.6.22.1-27.fc7 i686 athlon i386 [olivares@localhost ~]$ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. http://farechase.yahoo.com/
