[TriLUG] how to switch to dual-processor kernel?

Jason Faulkner jasonlf at gmail.com
Tue Jan 18 16:39:04 EST 2005


You have to install/compile an SMP kernel in order for Symetric-Multi
Processing (2+ procs) to be enabled.

Jay


On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:27:09 -0500, Christopher L Merrill
<chris at webperformanceinc.com> wrote:
> Is there an easy way to switch to a dual-processor kernel?  I just
> popped a second processor into one of our servers - I expected to see
> the boot process recognize the new hardware and do something...but no
> joy  :(
> 
> Is there a simple process for this - or do I have to know something
> about loading/building kernels to make it work?
> 
> RHEL3 (CentOS 3.3)
> 
> TIA,
> C
> 
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