smp celeron 500s w/ rh9 on abit bp6
 

i was just wondering if anybody has had success running smp on a similar system as this:

red hat linux 9.0
kernel 2.4.20-19.9

abit bp6
celeron 500mhz (soon to be 2 cpus)
288mb ram
voodoo3
soundblaster16


for a while now, i've been intimated by smp.. however, i understand that over the past few years newer kernels have been more complicit with smp..

i've been running cxoffice and a bunch of windows programs on a regular basis. these programs tend to slow my system to a near-halt.. a memory upgrade didn't seem to help much, so i'm wondering if smp might remedy this problem.. any insights would be greatly appreciated..

thanks
.otto

absolutely, if you are not running an SMP kernel, and you have multiple processors, this is why the slowness.

i actually don't have multiple processors - yet.. is there anything special i have to do with my kernel when i actually install a second processor? .. or are there kernels designed specificlly for smp? ..i really don't know that much about how kernels work..

thanks