On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 12:51, spikes wrote: > Thanks, so using bf24 during install would be ok for a xeon?
I'm not so sure, as I don't think that the bf24 kernel image is compiled without support for SMP. You can check out the other kernel-image-2.4* packages and see if they're compiled with SMP support by checking the kernel config file usually installed in /boot. If you don't see this line: CONFIG_SMP=y then the kernel you've installed doesn't support SMP, and thus hyperthreading. Actually, in my humble opinion, you'd be wasting a lot of the good options available in your x-way Pentium IV Xeon if you'd go with the default kernel images... it might be to your advantage if you'd find a kernel image that is compiled with optimizations nearer to your machine, or cherry-pick good patches you could backport to 2.4 (if you'll not commit to the 2.6 kernel just yet), patch then recompile the kernel using optimizations nearest to your machine. Just do regression tests afterwards to ensure that your system would be acceptably stable. -- -->paolo Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________ Philippine Free Network Group free.net.ph -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
