Re: Is the system SMP capable?
Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.redhat.release.taroon.general |
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On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 10:27 -0500, Ben Spencer wrote: > 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 you can indeed ask them.. the GPL requires them to give you that ;) -- Taroon-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-list