Is the system SMP capable?
Ben Spencer <[email protected]>
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We have an appliance for which we supplied the hardware and the vendor supplied the application (including OS). It is based off of RHEL 3 though. The vendor compiled their own kernel though (removing unneeded things). Is there a way to determine if the OS will take advantage of additional CPUs if one was installed without having the kernel config file and nothing apparent being displayed at boot/via uname? We don't want to buy additional CPUs for the box and find out the OS will not support them. Is there any performance gain from 2 CPUs when the OS isn't SMP enabled? We could ask the vendor, but they are trying to push a "high performance" appliance (software + hardware) as the solution. Licensing is per box install, not per CPU so that shouldn't be an issue either. Thanks Benji --- Benji Spencer System Administrator Ph: 312-329-2288 -- Taroon-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-list