On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> A simple question:
>
> In an earlier installation, I let Linux autodetect SMP and set up
> entries for both the regular kernel and the kernel-smp in my
> /etc/lilo.conf.
It shouldn't have installed the SMP kernel, the test for the newt install
seems is not so good.
> This time, I choose to say "No" during Install. I assumed that SMP is
> for dual or multimple processors and that therefore my single machine
> (AMD K6-2 400 Mhrtz) would not quality for SMP.
It doesn't really hurt anything, slightly bigger kernel is all.
> However, when I updated my kernel by clicking in MandrakeUpdate on
> "initscripts", Update automatically selected all 8 kernel files,
> including kernel-smp. So, kernel-smp is in fact installed on my system
> as you can see below:
Of course it is, MandrakeUpdate only shows _whats already installed_, thus
needing updated..
> [sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$ rpm -q kernel-smp
> kernel-smp-2.2.13-22mdk
> [sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$
>
> Just curious: what does this in fact mean?
that you have a /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13-22mdksmp, and the various modules
sitting on your HD (or atleast you have the "kernel-smp-2.2.13-22mdk"
entry in your rpm database) :)
> Is my computer using SMP?
Is your machine SMP, doubtful. Is your machine running an SMP kernel,
maybe..
(uname -r|grep -q mdksmp && echo "Yep this is a SMP kernel from mdk" || \
uname -a|grep -q SMP && echo "Well its not a mdk kernel but it is SMP" )
> Does it need it? Is SMP in fact installed and running on it?
I tend to hope one would know if their MB was SMP or not, but
cat /proc/cpuinfo
will tell you if there is more than one proccessor installed.
> Thanks so much.
>
> Benjamin
>
>
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