[lug] 2.4 and dual processors

Calvin Dodge caldodge at fpcc.net
Thu Jul 5 12:33:39 MDT 2001


On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:22:07PM -0600, Dan Kuester wrote:
> I recently upgraded from RH6.2 to RH7.1 on a system with dual 300Mhz 
> Pentium II processors.  I am wondering whether the 2.4 kernel as 
> distributed in RH7.1 is configured to use both processors, or whether I 

Yes, if you have the smp kernel installed, and it's selectable at boot time.

The package in question for your system would be "kernel-smp-2.4.2-2.i686.rpm"

Calvin
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