I mean, if I buy a dual processor system and put on FC2, am I just wasting my money or not? Do I HAVE to go for one of the red hat releases that say they support multi processors?

Thanks very much

DeanB

"I mean, if I buy a dual processor system and put on FC2, am I just wasting my money or not? Do I HAVE to go for one of the red hat releases that say they support multi processors?"

Fedora Core 2 has smp kernels.
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/fedora2.html

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Steve Stites

FC2 install should install a SMP kernel during the install. The below is from a basic install on a dell poweredge.

[seabass55@Mongo seabass55]$ uname -r
2.6.6-1.435.2.3smp
[seabass55@Mongo seabass55]$

Ok thanks guys! Thats VERY useful to know

DeanB.

I believe by now... all distros will attemp a CPU detection on install, and will install the proper kernel in relation to running an SMP system or a single CPU system. Actually...even if you have 1 single CPU, and you were to boot with SMP kernel support, nothing bad would happen, you would run just like if your kernel did not have SMP enabled. The only difference is when you DO have SMP, and if you don't have it enabled in your kernel, then you will only use one CPU.

By the way....there is no such thing anymore as an SMP kernel or a Non-SMP kernel, it is the same kernel that you use for both, it all depends on which option it is chosen inside the kernel. This is a new feature I believe for 2.6.x

It's been a kernel option for a while. By "smp kernel" I meant that is will have a seperate kernel installed with smp enabled. All smp installs I've seen will have as a minimum smp and non-smp kernels availitble at boot.