On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 04:05:08PM +1000, Richard Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was refering to the statement "leave as SMP so as to reduce possible
> hassles if and when a 2nd CPU is added".
In a former life I was called to a site where someone specifically
choose a uniprocessor kernel, then later added a second CPU and wondered
why performance didn't change :-) The interesting thing is that they
also had data which supposedly showed performance went down when they
added the second CPU. Of course the data didn't show that - it showed
that performance was identical with or without the second CPU.
> I was just curious as to why. I then thought that - no matter what system
> options I have - data is always safe and cna be restored to any new e-smith
> installation.
Correct. The SMP/non-SMP status is not stored by us at all. It's only stored
in lilo.conf, which is generated at install time depending on the hardware.
Gordon
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