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

[NOYX]

--- Larry Troxler <lt at westnet.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
[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 ;]
>>
>>
>
>It was version 1.0, not 1.1.
>
>Larry


yep, SMP mode -IS- running according to 'top' and 'uname -a' 
-thanx

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