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Greetings,

        Please excuse the newbie post:  I have read the posts about smp
and unfortunately they don't answer my question.  I have lurked in this
group for a couple days and I have not seen my question come up so I
thought I would post.  As you can tell I am new to Linux so any help would
be greatly appreciated.

        I currently have a dual p-166 system running on 4.2 with smp.  I
want to move up to 5.0 (Red-hat) but I don't have the slightest idea how
to set up smp support.  Does Linux 5.0 have an option for smp support
during the set up?  If not, do I need to compile the first kernel and then
recompile with smp?  I don't have any idea how to go about this.  I am
sure this is a basic question but I have not seen any documentation that I
can make use of and I probably don't know what questions to ask to get the
correct documentation.  If anyone can't point me to a url that has a step
by step procedure for this or a detailed explanation of the process it
would be greatly appreciated.  I *don't* want to go back to a Microsoft
OS, Windows seems dead now that I have some time with Linux.

Many Thanks in Advance,
-Brad

Here's a helpful URL:
 http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html

 cd /usr/src/linux
 vi Makefile
 uncomment SMP =1
 compile the kernel (see ch4 above).

 Warning:
   I had to remove SMP support on a server that we set up.  We
   were running raid5 on it, so I think that the combination of
   the two was bad, but the server kept locking up.  We had to
   reboot several times until I finally decided to remove SMP,
   and it stopped locking up.  When raid 5 matures a little,
   I will probably try it again.

 Hope this helps.

 Bill

: Greetings,

:       Please excuse the newbie post:  I have read the posts about smp
: and unfortunately they don't answer my question.  I have lurked in this
: group for a couple days and I have not seen my question come up so I
: thought I would post.  As you can tell I am new to Linux so any help would
: be greatly appreciated.

:       I currently have a dual p-166 system running on 4.2 with smp.  I
: want to move up to 5.0 (Red-hat) but I don't have the slightest idea how
: to set up smp support.  Does Linux 5.0 have an option for smp support
: during the set up?  If not, do I need to compile the first kernel and then
: recompile with smp?  I don't have any idea how to go about this.  I am
: sure this is a basic question but I have not seen any documentation that I
: can make use of and I probably don't know what questions to ask to get the
: correct documentation.  If anyone can't point me to a url that has a step
: by step procedure for this or a detailed explanation of the process it
: would be greatly appreciated.  I *don't* want to go back to a Microsoft
: OS, Windows seems dead now that I have some time with Linux.

: Many Thanks in Advance,
: -Brad