Optimum kernel for Xeon with em64t

2006-06-12 Thread Simon Buchanan
Hi There, I have a dual processor server with 2 x 2.8GHz processors which supports EM64T. Currently i am running kernel 2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp and a cat /proc/cpuinfo shows 4 processors (the 2 hyperthreaded processors). My question is: What is the optimum kernel to be running for my setup? Am i

Re: Optimum kernel for Xeon with em64t

2006-06-12 Thread Simon Buchanan
Thanks for the reply Jo... another question if i could please: On 6/12/06, Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, you're not running the right kernel - 2.6.8-9 is very old, and has security flaws in it. If you stick with sarge, update your kernel to kernel-image-2.6.8-12-em64t-p4-smp - or

Error apt-getting new EM64T kernel

2004-12-09 Thread Simon Buchanan
Hi There, I have just completed install of debian testing on my new SMP server (xeon nocona processors) and went to install a new SMP-aware kernel and got this message: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp_2.6.8-5_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess