Re: Multi-core CPUs - kernel vs kernel-smp

My answer yesterday was to use the kernel-smp on multiple CPUs and multicore single CPUs. If you're using either of these you'll need the kernel-smp. In the case of a single, non multicore CPU, use the "kernel" kernel.

What hardware are you considering for your web servers? I have many Dell and IBM servers, all with multi Xeon processors. I'd think for a web server that has a fair amount of traffic, you'd want at lease two Dual-Core processors of > 2 Gh, and lots of RAM.

David Richards wrote:
>
> Clark, Patti wrote:

>> Not being a kernel expert, when would one want to use kernel vs
>> kernel-smp on a multi-core system?
>>
>> Patti Clark
>> Unix System Administrator - RHCT
>> Office of Scientific and Technical Information
>>   "The U.S. 
>> Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of
>> it. You have to catch up with it yourself." - Benjamin Franklin
>>
>>   

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