On Sunday 18 February 2007 13:00, JT Moree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I dont know why the upgrade installed an smp kernel?
I don't know where the switchover was (sometime in the mid teen's, I think), but the kernel that is installed is always an SMP kernel and during the boot-up process, anything which is an SMP instruction is self-patched to be UMP instead. Basically, when the kernel is compiled, the SMP-safe structures like Spinlock_t and similar are "patched" to remove the instructions that would normally enforce cache coherency between processors (for example). Check the output of dmesg(1) and search for "SMP". You'll see what I mean. :) -- Frank J. Edwards Edwards & Edwards Consulting, LLC Voice: (813) 996-7954 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Large Attachments To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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