On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, you wrote: > I was doing some reading and noticed the term "SMP" kernel. I was wondering > what this is? How is it different from the standard kernel installed with > Mandrake. SMP stands for Symmetric Multi-Processing. BAsically it's the protocol for systems with more than one processor, ie quad Xeon's, dual Celerons, etc. An SMP kernel is probably compiled with tweaks and optimizations specific to an SMP environment. Hope that helps!
