<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div>Message: 1<br>Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 22:56:16 -0400<br>From: Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org><br>Subject: Re: SMP Kernel on non-SMP Machine<br>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com><br>Message-ID: <20060817025616.GA32025@jadzia.bu.edu><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii<br><br>>Okay. In that case, if you decide to not use hyperthreading, you may want<br>>to use the non-smp kernel for a very marginal performance gain.<br>><br>>There is not a separate source code for the SMP kernel. It is simply a build<br>>option.<br>><br>>What VPN client are you trying to build? Is it the glue
layer for the Cisco<br>>VPN client? If so, have you tried using the user-space and open source<br>>"vpnc" instead?<br>><br>>-- <br>>Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org <<a target="_blank" href="http://mattdm.org/">http://mattdm.org/</a>><br>>Boston University Linux ------> <<a target="_blank" href="http://linux.bu.edu/">http://linux.bu.edu/</a>><br></div></div><br>I am not too sure if I will see any difference with hyperthreading enabled/disabled since I am setting this up to do Java development while working at home. I think the only bottlenecks I will see is from the VPN connection as the traffic is routed around the state and back.<br><br>I thought there was one source code too but removing kernel-devel and
installing kernel-smp-devel allowed me to compile and install the module.<br><br>I am using the Cisco VPN Client. I would like to get this working first before trying other alernatives so I know I can connect if I need to. One of the issues I have with the Cisco client is that it takes control of my network connection and ALL traffic must go through the VPN even if I want to access the Internet. This also blocks any local traffic.<br><br>Wes.<br></div></div></body></html>