Quoting Robert Arkiletian <robark@xxxxxxxxx>: > > Many of the same features are in the RHL 9 kernel. > > The only one I am aware of is the Native Posix Thread Library (NPTL). > Do you know which other features were backported to RHL9? No, just that some like NPTL and ACL support are there. > > A lot of those are in RHL 9, some are not. Which ones are you interested > in? > > The one which I was hoping to get was the Scheduler support for > hyperthreaded CPUs. No, sorry, none of the scheduling stuff is in RHL 9. For that, you would need the RHEL kernel, or a real 2.6 kernel. > I know that the new scheduler is able to discern > between virtual and real cpus and therefore schedules processes > optimally on Hyperthreaded CPU's. I have a dual Xeon at my school so > this feature would be welcome. Yes, I'm also awaiting being able to use hyperthreading in a sane way, so I feel your pain. But no go with RHL 9. You'll need to upgrade either the OS or the kernel, as you previously noted. > -- > Robert Arkiletian > C++ GUI tutorial http://fltk.org/links.php?V19 -- Eric Rostetter -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
