On Sun November 6 2005 06:30 pm, David R. Litwin wrote: > I have a Pentium Four processor with 3.06GHz speed. As far as I can tell, > this means that I am eligible to use a 686-smp kernel. Though in comparison > to the non smp kernel it seems to be much faster, an odd thing is also > happening which I can only attribute to the smp (since I have not really > seen it on the non smp kernel). My computer is doing some big-time > freezing. It seems to be random, happening a few hours after I turn on my > laptop; or only a few minutes. I have to manually do a hard reboot, which > means it needs to run fsck which means data can be lost or corrupted (aside > from it possibly damaging the whole computer and generally being a very big > pain in the arse). > > I'd like to know your opinions. Is this freezing due to the smp? If so, > why? How can I fix it? > > I thank you kindly in advance.
I haven't had the pleasure of running an smp kernel. Those are for Symmetric multi processing if I'm not mistaken, and you need two processors or maybe a dual core cpu. That's from what I understand, more than what I know.. ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
