[64studio-devel] Should I try SMP (AMD)?

[Quentin Harley]

Larry Troxler wrote:
> When running the installer in expert mode, I saw that there is an option 
> to install the SMP kernel, but by default it is not installed.
> Since I have only just installed using the defaults, I was going to 
> re-install using the SMP kernel.
>
>   
No need...Use Synaptic to install the other kernel as well (don't forget 
the headers etc.)  This way you can try SMP (it will be the top most 
boot option) and if you like it, leave it.  This allows you to go back 
to the default kernel if you ever wanted to - (Troubleshooting new 
hardware for instance)

I run the SMP kernel with good results
> Is there an overview of the state of SMP on linux audio somewhere? Is it 
> in general stable enough to use a production music synthesizer, or does 
> it depend on the particular applications?
>
> Also, is it possible do install both the SMP and single-processor 
> kernels in a dual boot arrangement? 
This was what I referred to... :-)
> I imagine that only the kernel and 
> kernel modules would be different (just like any kernel), and that the 
> libs and applications should be all the same. Is this correct?
>   
Yup... you have the idea already!

Quentin