[64studio-devel] Fwd: Re: THE WALL HAS FALLEN - SMP Mode

[Quentin Harley]

[NOYX] wrote:
> --- "[NOYX]" <x.noyx at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 07:52:18 -0800 (PST)
>> From: "[NOYX]" <x.noyx at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: Re: [64studio-devel] THE WALL HAS FALLEN
>> To: Larry Troxler <lt at westnet.com>
>>
>> That is something i will have to look into; is that the case with the 1.1.1 release or the 1.0 ?
>> -read some where that the SMP mode was detected by default in the newest version- [?] i have
>> tried
>> both with the same outcome....maybe it wasn't detected correctly.
>> thanx again ;]
>>
>>     
The latest kernel (2.6.19-1-multimedia-amd64) is a dual purpose kernel, 
on recommendation of the Debian and kernel-devel teams.  A single core 
machine would be a multi core machine with 1 core...  thus no more 
dedicated single or SMP kernel anymore.  It is in reality a SMP kernel 
that can do single...

This makes it much easier for the distro packagers, because we have a 
one size fits all again.

I take it you have a AMDx2 machine?  Does TOP report 2 cores?  (press 1 
during the run)  The 2 or more cores will be displayed separately.

You should also see the following output for uname -a

uname -a
Linux 64studio 2.6.19-1-multimedia-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT .........

Regards
Quentin