Linux Kernel Flavours explained?? 1

[Scunningham99]

Hi All

We are moving from a sun solaris 8 platform to linux red hat enterprise 4.

I am not too sure off the what the flavours are.. please can someone explain the following:-

The kernel flavor, uniprocessor, smp or
hugemem types

and the output from uname -a:-

[root@eurlinux01 etc]# uname -a
Linux eurlinux01 2.6.9-22.0.1.EL #1 Tue Oct 18 18:29:40 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux


thanks in advance!


Sy UK

 

[Annihilannic]

You are on the uniprocessor kernel.

The revision (uname -r) for hugemem would be 2.6.9-22.0.1.ELhugemem, and for smp would be 2.6.9-22.0.1.ELsmp.

Annihilannic.

 

[BocaBurger]

What hardware are you running on?



BocaBurger
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[kaprino]

Try the redaht documentation website, it will explain in details what the different kernels are. SMP includes High-mem.

Kaprino

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/