From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dominique Sidiropoulos Subject: Re: Linux on dual processor query Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 04:58:39 +0200 Message-ID: <43EAAFDF.7050405@csd.uoc.gr> References: 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 Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Generally the (smp-)kernel will do the right thing (TM) for you. In very very rare occasions you'll have to tinker a program to take advantage of the two processors. Installing and running a linux distro of recent vintage like Fedora or Novell/SuSE should be fearly easy. Fedora is a good option there. For any additional (Fedora) packages and programs you may have a look at freshrpms.net/rpmforge.net and related sites (I assume you've got a broandband connection there cause the updates are quite `demanding' in bandwidth). Hope this helps mate and good luck. Cheers, Dominick P.S.: For extra performance boost you might want to add some extra RAM modules to the system. It usually helps a lot. 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