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

[Larry Troxler]

Quentin Harley wrote:
> 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
> 

Well, I am not using 2.6.19 but 2.6.17 (version 1.0 of the 
distribution). Yes, it's an AMD-64 X2, and top and uname work as you say 
they should for dual core.

Larry