From,
Steven
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On Monday 29 December 2003 11:27 am, Steven Nelson wrote:
> Hi, based on the replies you all sent I have a couple questions. I write
> them in order, based on the importance or being more likely to be or fix
> the problem, 1- . One being the first concern. The questions are listed in
> order of what needs to be done first, based on my judgement.
>
> 1.(3 questions)
> I have read the information in your replies. The question I have is, is
> there another way to enable hyper threading besides the using the smp
> kernel or updating to 2.6 kernel?
no, but is easier than you think. but does require a reboot, and reconfig of
NVidia (if used) drivers.
>Generally there are commands to enable
> features like hyper threading.
not like hyperthreading.
> Are you sure there is not a command or
> something like it? Also is there a command I can run from the command line
> to make sure hyper threading is not enabled?
ctrl+alt+ f2 will get you to a differnet console that should list the kernel
used when it asks for a login, if it says smp,,, you are doing it. or you
could as root in a text console do cat /proc/interrupts
and it should list 2 cpus if you are using
> I don't think it is, just to
> be sure though (I didn't notice the penguins during installation).
they do it durring boot up,,, and you should have an smp choice in the lilo or
grub boot up screen,
> 2.(no questions)
> I did not notice one or two penguins during the installation.
what about boot up?
> I also wrote
> this above, although if there are any commands it would be helpful to be
> 100% sure ht is enabled. I do not think it is.
when you get it running,, let me know if you see any change in speed of any
app.
> 3.(3 questions)
> If there is not a way to get hyper threading to work with the regular
> kernel, is all that needs to be done is boot from the smp kernel? Will
> booting from that kernel work? Is there anything else that needs to be done
> to get hyperthreading enabled in Linux besides booting from the smp kernel?
nope
> 4.(2 questions)
> I already installed the kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm, so if you
> install 2.6 kernel the same way, it shouldn't be a problem. Would I need to
> use the smp kernel? Would I need to configure it to enable hyper threading?
not sure about 2.6 just yet,,, but you will _have_ to boot from an smp or
enterprise kernel to see 2 cpus. period.
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