Linux vmlinuz images

Michael Hennebry hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
Fri May 6 14:02:43 UTC 2005


On Fri, 6 May 2005, Paul Howarth wrote:

> The "smp" kernel is installed on systems with multiple CPUs. Some recent
> CPUs with hyperthreading are treated as multiple CPUs and will get the
> smp kernel installed. Whether or not the smp kernel will result in
> better performance for you probably depends on the types of applications
> you are using your system for. Try out both kernels for a while and see
> if you notice one being faster than the other.

In my case, the smp kernel resulted in major damage and catatonia.

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