Re: [webmin-l] Urgent Help Needed - Kernel Issues

[Alan D. <We...@Om...>]

The Red Hat document doesn't state anything about running an SMP kernel
on a single processor system, and I'm not sure what you mean about it
helping manage the load of the server, unless you are referring to
hyperthreading, which is a different issue.

However, Google turned up a pertinent message from the Linux kernel list
back in 1999:

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9911.3/0283.html

BTW, "UP" refers to "uni-processor" (the opposite of multi-processor),
in other words a computer with only one processor, or a kernel that does
not support SMP.

Here's another interesting thread from the FreeBSD list, which also
refers to Linux and Windows:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc/browse_thread/thread/faa4f649f0704183/3c57b22b4d8ae8b8

Alan

On 10/21/2005 5:11 PM, Vern wrote:
> This is where I found out about it:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/s1-x86-bootloader.html
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------- 
> From: John Hinton <web...@ew...> 
> To: web...@li... 
> Sent: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:59:55 -0400 
> Subject: Re: [webmin-l] Urgent Help Needed - Kernel Issues
>
>   
>> Vernon J. Spangler wrote: 
>>
>>     
>>> You can still use smp under a single processor. At times it can help manage 
>>> the load of the server. 
>> OH WOW!! That's news to me. Do you by any chance have a good reference 
>> site on the issue? All I've heard so far is people complaing about this 
>> "error", which now sounds like it might not be an error. 
>>
>> John Hinton