From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)" Subject: Re: Linux on dual processor query Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 19:43:57 -0600 Message-ID: <43EA9E5D.1010303@hackmiester.com> References: Reply-To: hackmiester@hackmiester.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: James Miller , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org I believe I have a machine like yours - two chips, HP, PII era... I installed fedora 4 on it and yes my kernel does have 'smp' in it. It's pretty fast for a PII 400mHz so I suppose it is distributing to both procs. However, some programs do have to be compiled like that, like my eggdrop and IRCd. -- --hackmiester Walk a mile in my shoes and you will be a mile away in a new pair of shoes. James Miller wrote: > I've recently run across an older server for cheap and am thinking > about acquiring it for cruel experimentation purposes (and if it > works, maybe even doing something useful with it). It's a dual > processor machine--HP, I think. P2 era. I'm wondering what's involved > in setting up and running Linux on one of these beasties. First, I > assume one must run a special kernel to take advantage of both > processors, right? If so, SMP kernel? Second, does the kernel handle > everything involved with distributing to the processors, or must one > use specially-compiled programs on such a system as well? Feedback on > this will be appreciated: still not sure if I want to tackle such a > project. > > Thanks, James > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs