Gregg wrote:
Yes I meant SMP :). I understood that the SMP Kernel would recognize a p4 HT processor as two processors. Is that incorrect? And if it does is there an advantage to switching to an SMP Kernel?



*If* your Mobo and BIOS supports Hyperthreading, then yes, you should use an SMP kernel. The CPU should support it. I just did some quick Googling and turned up the following. A bit old, but...

http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php?story=20040226231747944

     Not so old...

http://kerneltrap.org/node/5120

Chris...



 >I can't offer much in the way of fixing the stuttering I'm afraid, but I
 >can tell you not to try upgrading the kernel to an SNMP version. ..

 >SNMP is Simple Network Management Protocol , I suspect you're thinking
 >of SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing ). To take advantage of an SMP kernel
 >you'd need two CPU's (or possibly one of the 'new' dual core CPU's , tho
 >I don't know if SMP would see the as seperate ).

 >Please don't think I'm being 'funny' , just trying to save you the aggro
 >of installing a new kernel and possibly spending  a long time
 >recompiling / reinstalling if you don't need to..


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