On 07/02/07, Gilboa Davara <gilboad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 15:57 +0800, "欧可祺(Ho-Ki Au)" wrote: > Can FC6 take advantage of multiple cpu's? Yes. As far as I remember, fedora-smp-kernel is configured to support <= 32 cores. > Do I need a special version of the kernel? In x86_64 all kernels are SMP. In i386 - Anaconda (the installer) will select the SMP kernel for you.
Actually the i386 kernels are all SMP also. <release notes> Default Kernel Provides SMP There is no separate SMP kernel available for Fedora Core 6 on i386, x86_64 and ppc64. Multiprocessor support is provided by the native kernel. PowerPC Kernel Support There is no support for Xen or kdump for the PowerPC architecture in Fedora Core 6 test3. 32-bit PowerPC does still have a separate SMP kernel. </release notes> However you may want to use the PAE kernel for "32-bit x86 systems with > 4GB of RAM, or with CPUs that have a 'NX (No eXecute)' feature" (such as Intel Core2 Duo etc.) I'm not sure that anaconda installs this automatically...? -- Mark Knoop
