DSL with SMP-Kernel

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: DSL with SMP-Kernel
started by: Kemoauc2

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Posted by Kemoauc2 on May 02 2006,20:14

Hello!
Is there any chance to upgrade DSL to a SMP-Kernel?
I would like to reaktivate my IBM Netfinity 3500 as a fileserver and DSL seems to be the right distro for it...

Bye,
Robert

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Posted by humpty on May 02 2006,21:47

I thought it already was?

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Posted by roberts on May 02 2006,23:25

Always has been.

$ uname -a
Linux box 2.4.26 #1 SMP Sa Apr 17 19:33:42 CEST 2004 i686

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Posted by Gehacktesmacher on May 22 2006,14:20

hi! i am new here.
but i got the same question in mind till i found this thread


so i tried "uname -a" on some of my machines, mostly i got the smp stamp, also on single cpu machines.

so the question is not that dsl support smp machines otherwise i think the question is for example that dsl really uses both cores on a dual core system or more than 1 cpu in multiprocessor systems.


i tried both versions dsl2.4 and dsl-n with the 2.6 kernel,
boot with vmwareplayer and i got the smp stamp.

but then i tried boinc (setiathome) and only one cpu core is used.

but it can be that the vmware player does not support dualcore cpus or smp systems for the booted image?!

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Posted by andrewb on May 23 2006,02:32

From the vmplayer documentation:

Virtual SMP
VMware Player does not support Virtual SMP. You cannot use VMware Player to power on a
virtual machine that has more than one virtual processor assigned.

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