[TriLUG] kernel question

[Mike Johnson]

Greg Brown [gregbrown at mindspring.com] wrote:
> If I accidently included symmetric multi-processing support into my 
> kernel on a machine which has only one processor.  By including this 
> option do I face and kind of a performance hit on my single processor 
> machine?  Even though I did include this option built-into my kernel I 
> did not compile the kernel with options telling it to compile for N 
> number of processors.  I'm running the 2.4.21 kernel.  If the kernel is 
> fine as-is I'll just leave well enough alone until I upgrade again - if 
> not, I'll recompile.  Thoughts?  Anyone?  Bueller?  Fry?

I imagine there will be a flood of responses, but just in case, the
answer is no, there is no performance hit.  You'll be fine.  Feel free
to leave it alone until the next upgrade.

Mike
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