normal and smp kernel

[Endymion]

Fred Morcos wrote:

>On 5/19/05, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
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>>Fred Morcos writes:
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>>>actually i only have 1 processor, ill download the normal kernel rpm..
>>>thanks :)
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>>A Pentium-4 CPU with hyperthreading counts as two processors, and requires
>>the smp kernel to enable hyperthreading.
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>i see, i checked for hyperthreading using a tool from the intel site
>and its not support by my processor.. thanks guys :)
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What about amd64 processors with HyperTransport? Do those count as 
smp's? And is there anything else that needs to be done to fully utilize 
HT under linux or is a purely hardware thing?
-Endy