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Re: kernel-2.6.9-i686-hugemem vs. kernel-2.6.9-i686-smp?
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Joshua Daniel Franklin <[log in to unmask]>
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Joshua Daniel Franklin <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:05:14 -0700
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On 4/11/06, Romeo Ninov  wrote:
> Depend of kind of the mashine. If you have >1 or Intel MultiThread
> processors you should choose SMP

Actually, Arjan van de Ven (a Red Hat kernel developer) had this
to say about the hugemem kernel if you have at least 1G RAM:

"personally I would always use it; the "overhead" is quite low and the extra
virtual address space helps for java and the like. It's a pain to switch
kernels if you want to start java :-)"

http://www.redhat.com/archives/nahant-beta-list/2004-November/msg00027.html

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