Also if you have a server with more than 4Gigs of RAM you will need to use the smp kernel Thx, Pankaj Govil -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrew Bacchi Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 8:22 AM To: davidr@xxxxxxxxxxxx; General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Multi-core CPUs - kernel vs kernel-smp My answer yesterday was to use the kernel-smp on multiple CPUs and multicore single CPUs. If you're using either of these you'll need the kernel-smp. In the case of a single, non multicore CPU, use the "kernel" kernel. What hardware are you considering for your web servers? I have many Dell and IBM servers, all with multi Xeon processors. I'd think for a web server that has a fair amount of traffic, you'd want at lease two Dual-Core processors of > 2 Gh, and lots of RAM. David Richards wrote: > > Clark, Patti wrote: >> Not being a kernel expert, when would one want to use kernel vs >> kernel-smp on a multi-core system? >> >> Patti Clark >> Unix System Administrator - RHCT >> Office of Scientific and Technical Information >> <mailto:clarkp@xxxxxxxx> <mailto:clarkp@xxxxxxxx> "The U.S. >> Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You >> have to catch up with it yourself." - Benjamin Franklin >> >> > > Hi, > I need information on this too. I am current looking in to > "respeccing" our web servers and I don't know much about the > smp/dual-core kernel stuff. I guess i need to dig through google > > David > -- veritatis simplex oratio est -Seneca Andrew Bacchi Systems Programmer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute phone: 518.276.6415 fax: 518.276.2809 http://www.rpi.edu/~bacchi/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
