From: "Kevin J. Cummings" <cummings@kjchome.homeip.net>
To: "Matías López Bergero" <mlopezb@udesa.edu.ar>,
linux-admin <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: smp question
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:56:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41ABB73D.9030400@kjchome.homeip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41AB569E.3000309@udesa.edu.ar>
Matías López Bergero wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Hello,
> Sorry if this is a to silly question... :-X
>
> I have a SMP capable server, but with only one cpu installed.
> Should I enable SMP support on the kernel? I'm trying to reach the best
> performance.
> The cpu is Intel Xeon, this option is not in the cpu list in the kernel
> config. Should I chose P4 or P3? it is the same?
IIRC, Xeon processors have dual internal cores (or at least dual
instruction decode paths), and act like dual processors, and benefit
from the SMP kernels. Also, IIRC, there were both P3 and P4 Xeons made.
So, you have to know which version you have.
What does "cat /proc/cpuinfo" tell you?
--
Kevin J. Cummings
kjchome@rcn.com
cummings@kjchome.homeip.net
cummings@kjc386.framingham.ma.us
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-29 23:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-29 17:04 smp question Matías López Bergero
2004-11-29 23:56 ` Kevin J. Cummings [this message]
2004-11-30 13:25 ` Matías López Bergero
2004-11-30 16:56 ` Kevin J. Cummings
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=41ABB73D.9030400@kjchome.homeip.net \
--to=cummings@kjchome.homeip.net \
--cc=linux-admin@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mlopezb@udesa.edu.ar \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).