On 28/08/07, Gavin McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Krsnendu dasa wrote: > > > > 64-bit edubuntu should probably give you better performance, but if > you > > > need flash and java, you're probably better off using 32-bit with the > > > server kernel to give you use of the full available RAM. > > > > Do you have to choose SMP option or anything like that to take > > advantage of the quad cores? > > My understanding it that you just have to have an SMP-enabled kernel to > use > all cores. As multicore cpus are so common now, the "-generic-" kernel > installed by default is SMP-enabled as far as I know. There are > "-server-" > and "-server-bigiron-" kernels available, which give you some extra > abilities like being able to use large amounts of RAM (more than about 3GB > on a 32-bit machine/kernel), etc. You should probably only use those if > you need them though.
I'll be starting with 4 GB of RAM, (possibly increasing it in future.) Which kernel should I use?
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