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<div><span class="357420800-15092005"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Excuse
my ignorance, but I've never dealt with Linux on multiple processors
(or hyperthreaded processor) platforms before.</font></span></div>
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<div><span class="357420800-15092005"><font face="Verdana" size="2">I
know they utilise the kernel-smp package, do other packages need to be
rebuilt to allow for smp? Will a standard RPM for openswan work (I will
be using RHEL 4 ES) or an RPM that I build on a non-hyperthreaded
processor (they will all be x86).</font></span></div>
<div><span class="357420800-15092005"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Or
will I have to build my own RPMs on the smp machine?</font></span></div>
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My experience with the Fedora Core 4 SMP kernel running on Athlon 64 X2
(dual core) is that the kernel will schedule individual processes to
different processors as needed. If you are running a single process
app with a single thread, it will run fine on one processor, leaving
the other(s) to do whatever else needs to be done.<br>
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Unless you are doing true parallel processing (like message passing), I
don't think you need a special build of your applications.<br>
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John S. Riley, Ph.D.
DSB Scientific Consulting
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