frosterrj Posted October 1, 2005 Report Share Posted October 1, 2005 I have an Intel P4 630 with HT which shows up as 2 processors in the WinXP hardware descriptions, so should I choose a kernel with SMP enabled to get the most out of the processor? Or is that boxes with 2 physical cpus? Thanks, Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted October 1, 2005 Report Share Posted October 1, 2005 SMP is OK for HT enabled CPU's as well. It will also show as 2 CPU's under Linux. Don't use a SMP kernel if you intend to use heavy emulators like VMware, they are still unresolved performance issues. In that case, use a plain kernel instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowchaser Posted October 1, 2005 Report Share Posted October 1, 2005 Does it also apply to Pentuim D cpu's? or just to Hyper Threading CPU's? Becuase the Pentuim D are 2 Physical Processors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frosterrj Posted October 1, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2005 SMP is OK for HT enabled CPU's as well. It will also show as 2 CPU's under Linux.Don't use a SMP kernel if you intend to use heavy emulators like VMware, they are still unresolved performance issues. In that case, use a plain kernel instead. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks. No intention to use emulators, so maybe i'll go with the smp, if it's possible to choose when installing. Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlm250r Posted October 2, 2005 Report Share Posted October 2, 2005 does that include using cedega?................ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted October 2, 2005 Report Share Posted October 2, 2005 (edited) does that include using cedega?................ <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No. Probably Win4Lin, but not Cedega, which does not emulate hardware- just soft code. Cedega is just a finetuned (?) wine version. Edited October 2, 2005 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlm250r Posted October 2, 2005 Report Share Posted October 2, 2005 (edited) thanks a bunch! now on to a new problem......... installed smp kernel in le2005 cannot get NVIDIA driver(v.7676) to compile the module have successfully installed several times on 2.6.11-12mdk not 2.6.11-12mdksmp as of yet ------------------------------ LE 2005 k2.6.11-12 P4 3GHz 800M FSB /HT 1024 MB RAM Intel D875PBZ mobo nvidia MX4000 vid soundblaster live Maxtor 80Gb (for windows) Seagate 40Gb (for linux) DVD-Rom cd-rewriter Edited October 2, 2005 by dlm250r Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted October 2, 2005 Report Share Posted October 2, 2005 I use vmware on a P4 with HT and SMP kernel with no problem. Vmware mainly runs office apps, but I did not notice anything funny like poor performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted October 2, 2005 Report Share Posted October 2, 2005 (edited) not 2.6.11-12mdksmp as of yet So, do the natural thing: Remove the nvidia modules and download/install the official nvidia package. 7676 compiles the necessary modules very easily- just install kernel-source before, and do a telinit 3 before installing 7676. Edited October 2, 2005 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlm250r Posted October 2, 2005 Report Share Posted October 2, 2005 (edited) not on the 2.6.11-12mdksmp kernel i am using the official pkg1.run.......... BUT, i just today successfully compiled and installed a kernel (only changed the processor family to P4) and installed the NVIDIA driver on this kernel Now, I need to know how to configure the kernel myself for SMP THANKS Edited October 2, 2005 by dlm250r Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlm250r Posted October 2, 2005 Report Share Posted October 2, 2005 not on the 2.6.11-12mdksmp kerneli am using the official pkg1.run.......... BUT, i just today successfully compiled and installed a kernel (only changed the processor family to P4) and installed the NVIDIA driver on this kernel Now, I need to know how to configure the kernel myself for SMP THANKS <{POST_SNAPBACK}> found the HT and SMP options in the Processor type menu of menuconfig........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlm250r Posted October 3, 2005 Report Share Posted October 3, 2005 not on the 2.6.11-12mdksmp kerneli am using the official pkg1.run.......... BUT, i just today successfully compiled and installed a kernel (only changed the processor family to P4) and installed the NVIDIA driver on this kernel Now, I need to know how to configure the kernel myself for SMP THANKS <{POST_SNAPBACK}> found the HT and SMP options in the Processor type menu of menuconfig........ <{POST_SNAPBACK}> now all is well! swapped hdds and re-installed Win and LE2005 with a SMP kernel with Nvidia drivers everything going great................sofar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted October 4, 2005 Report Share Posted October 4, 2005 (edited) I use vmware on a P4 with HT and SMP kernel with no problem. Vmware mainly runs office apps, but I did not notice anything funny like poor performance. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Lucky for you. I did have problems, and the official VMWare troubleshooter suggests that you shouldn't use VMWare with SMP kernels, unless you don't mind restarting it every XX minutes or so. Edited October 4, 2005 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted October 4, 2005 Report Share Posted October 4, 2005 Lucky for you. I did have problems, and the official VMWare troubleshooter suggests that you shouldn't use VMWare with SMP kernels, unless you don't mind restarting it every XX minutes or so. I have only recently switched to VMWare 4.5. Believe me or not, the previous version of VMware (3.1 or 3.2, can't rememebr) ran perfectly under SMP kernel supplied with MDK 8.2. I had VMware running for weeks with no problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlm250r Posted October 15, 2005 Report Share Posted October 15, 2005 (edited) now running 2.6.13.3 kernel on LE 2005. have issues with supermount now...... but thats another topic..... (newbie trying to grow up.) Edited October 15, 2005 by dlm250r Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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