Multiple penguins on boot

2008-05-08 Thread Moshe Gorohovsky
Hi linux-il, Hag Sameah! I recently set up a linux PC with Intel Core2 Duo CPU. I had started the PC up from a knoppix v5.3.1 DVD. Linux kernel on this DVD uses graphical framebuffer console and shows two penguin images on start-up. My previous machine showed a single penguin image. It was AMD

Re: Multiple penguins on boot

2008-05-08 Thread ik
Hi, On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Moshe Gorohovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi linux-il, Hag Sameah! I recently set up a linux PC with Intel Core2 Duo CPU. I had started the PC up from a knoppix v5.3.1 DVD. Linux kernel on this DVD uses graphical framebuffer console and shows two

Re: Multiple penguins on boot

2008-05-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thursday 08 May 2008, Moshe Gorohovsky wrote: Hi linux-il, Hag Sameah! I recently set up a linux PC with Intel Core2 Duo CPU. I had started the PC up from a knoppix v5.3.1 DVD. Linux kernel on this DVD uses graphical framebuffer console and shows two penguin images on start-up. My

Re: Multiple penguins on boot

2008-05-08 Thread Michael Tewner
A recent version of the Linux kernel will see two CPU's but know they're on the same physical processor. This is important especially when you have multiple physical multi-core processors. Multiple cores share text segments- the kernel will try to keep multiple threads of the same process on the

Re: Multiple penguins on boot

2008-05-08 Thread Moshe Gorohovsky
Hi, Thank you for the answers. Moshe. Michael Tewner wrote: A recent version of the Linux kernel will see two CPU's but know they're on the same physical processor. This is important especially when you have multiple physical multi-core processors. Multiple cores share text segments- the

Re: Multiple penguins on boot

2008-05-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 12:59:59PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Thursday 08 May 2008, Moshe Gorohovsky wrote: Hi linux-il, Hag Sameah! I recently set up a linux PC with Intel Core2 Duo CPU. I had started the PC up from a knoppix v5.3.1 DVD. Linux kernel on this DVD uses graphical