SMP with Ubuntu 6.10

[Matthew Nicholson]

as far as i know, with the -generic kernel, your all set. i find teh easier
way to make sure is to open up System->Administration->System Monitor, then
goto the Resources tab. if you see 2 cpus there, your all set.

a neat "trick" i picked up is setting MAKE flags in your bashrc to have make
run  concurrent compile commands, according to the nubmer of cpus/cores you
have:

export MAKEFLAGS="-j`ls -1 /sys/devices/system/cpu | wc -l`"

cheers

Matt

On 12/13/06, yorlick kilroy <yorlick at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get the most out of my Intel Core 2 Duo on Ubuntu 6.10. I
> read that you need to install the SMP kernel in order to get multiprocessor
> support on ubuntu. I currently have  the   2.6.17-10-generic kernel
> running on my Ubuntu installation and "top" tells me that I have 2 CPUs.
> When I search for an smp package in synaptic, the package manager tell me
> that the linux-686-smp is obsoleted by the linux-image-generic which is the
> current image installed.
>
> This confuses me. Does this mean that I don't need to install any SMP
> packages as they are all included already? Is there a good benchmark for
> dual core CPUs for linux?
>
> cheers
> Yorlick
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