[mdlug] Linux on Intel Core Duo

R. Kannan rkannan at peoplepc.com
Wed Jul 2 19:30:42 EDT 2008


Thanks Robert & Jeff. I switched to the stock SMP kernel and I can now see both CPUs.

Now a SuSE question: SuSE supplies two stock SMP kernels bigsmp and smp. Does anyone know the difference between the two?

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Citek <robert.citek at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jul 2, 2008 6:44 PM
>To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
>Subject: Re: [mdlug] Linux on Intel Core Duo
>
>Yup.  As Jeff mentioned, you need to install a kernel with SMP enabled. - Robert
>
>On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 5:20 PM, R. Kannan <rkannan at peoplepc.com> wrote:
>> Looks like I am not using the two CPUs...
>>
>>
>> /tmp/kde-kannan> uname -a
>> Linux Niranjana 2.6.16.13-4-default #1 Wed May 3 04:53:23 UTC 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>> ktmp/kde-kannan> cat /proc/cmdline
>> root=/dev/sda6 vga=0x317    resume=/dev/sda5  splash=silent
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