<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 28/08/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gavin McCullagh</b> <<a href="mailto:gmccullagh@gmail.com">gmccullagh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Krsnendu dasa wrote:<br><br>> > 64-bit edubuntu should probably give you better performance, but if you<br>> > need flash and java, you're probably better off using 32-bit with the<br>
> > server kernel to give you use of the full available RAM.<br>><br>> Do you have to choose SMP option or anything like that to take<br>> advantage of the quad cores?<br><br>My understanding it that you just have to have an SMP-enabled kernel to use
<br>all cores. As multicore cpus are so common now, the "-generic-" kernel<br>installed by default is SMP-enabled as far as I know. There are "-server-"<br>and "-server-bigiron-" kernels available, which give you some extra
<br>abilities like being able to use large amounts of RAM (more than about 3GB<br>on a 32-bit machine/kernel), etc. You should probably only use those if<br>you need them though.</blockquote><div><br>I'll be starting with 4 GB of RAM, (possibly increasing it in future.) Which kernel should I use?
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