On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 06:04:38AM +0800, Jon Miller wrote: > I need to do a kernel update on our Debian server from 2.4.26 to 2.6.11 or > better. When I did a apt-cache search kernel-image 2 of the images I got was: > kernel-image-2.6-686 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on > PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4. > kernel-image-2.6-686-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on > PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 SMP. > The server has a P4 in it, from what I remember there is a feature in the > BIOS that can turn on or off the Hyperthreading and with it on it's possible > (correct me if I'm wrong here) to run the system with the > kernel-image-2.6-686-smp image. > 1) is this correct > 2) are there really any benefits to running this as a gateway server? or > should I just stay with the kernel-image-2.6-686?
Note that the kernel packages have now been renamed to `linux-image-<ver>' $ apt-cache search linux-image [snip] linux-image-2.6.15-1-486 - Linux kernel 2.6.15 image on 486-class machines linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 - Linux kernel 2.6.15 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 machines linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp - Linux kernel 2.6.15 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 SMP machines linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7 - Linux kernel 2.6.15 image on AMD K7 machines linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7-smp - Linux kernel 2.6.15 image on AMD K7 SMP machines [snip] HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036
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