[mythtv-users] Hardware Woes

[Chris Trown]

Gregg wrote:
> Yes I meant SMP :).  I understood that the SMP Kernel would recognize a 
> p4 HT processor as two processors.  Is that incorrect? And if it does is 
> there an advantage to switching to an SMP Kernel?
> 


      *If* your Mobo and BIOS supports Hyperthreading, then yes, you 
should use an SMP kernel.  The CPU should support it.  I just did some 
quick Googling and turned up the following.  A bit old, but...

http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php?story=20040226231747944

      Not so old...

http://kerneltrap.org/node/5120

Chris...

> 
> 
>  >I can't offer much in the way of fixing the stuttering I'm afraid, but I
>  >can tell you not to try upgrading the kernel to an SNMP version. ..
> 
>  >SNMP is Simple Network Management Protocol , I suspect you're thinking
>  >of SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing ). To take advantage of an SMP kernel
>  >you'd need two CPU's (or possibly one of the 'new' dual core CPU's , tho
>  >I don't know if SMP would see the as seperate ).
> 
>  >Please don't think I'm being 'funny' , just trying to save you the aggro
>  >of installing a new kernel and possibly spending  a long time
>  >recompiling / reinstalling if you don't need to..
> 

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