[Gllug] Kernel - Enterprise Vs SMP

[Andy Young]

That is very useful information, many thanks Paul.

Regards,

Andy.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Paul Nasrat [SMTP:pauln at truemesh.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, December 05, 2002 3:46 PM
> To:	gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject:	Re: [Gllug] Kernel - Enterprise Vs SMP
> 
> On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:29:24PM -0000, Andy Young wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Just a quick question, can anyone tell me the basic lowdown on the
> > difference between the "straight out of the box" kernels:
> > 
> > 2.4.7-10enterprise
> > 2.4.7-10smp
> 
> A good place to look is www.kernelnewbies.org which has the vendor
> kernels unravelled. I assume you are dealing with an rpm based kernel
> (as RH uses the enterprise flag)
> 
> http://www.kernelnewbies.org/kernels/
> 
> Can't see a 2.4.7 on them but if you grab the src.rpm (not the
> kernel-source rpm) you'll be able to do a diff on the .configs
> 
> Main thing is the CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y and the arch is MPENTIUMIII
> 
> > The enterprise kernel seems to be SMP enabled, so at a guess it has
> extra
> > bells and whistles, but maybe with extra memory overhead?
> 
> The spec file gives:
> 
> %description enterprise
> This package includes a kernel that has appropriate configuration
> options enabled for Pentium III machines with 4 Gigabyte of memory or
> more.
> 
> 
> 
> Paul
> 
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