On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 11:25 +0000, Antonio Ricardo Soares da Silva Correia wrote: > Ben, > > what I want is to be able to run the 686 SMP kernel like I manage to do in > other dists and, while this issue is not solved, to be at least able to run > the 686 non SMP kernel as I used to with Hoary and Breezy. Not only this > hasn´t been solved since Hoary but now I even don´t have the possibility to > run a 686 kernel because it was widrawn from the repositories and replaced > with the SMP version (though not described as so) and that one never worked > with my computer. > I´m using the 386 kernel because I have no other choice but I feel like > having a Ferrari with a Fiat 500 engine...
Believe me when I tell you that the performance gain of using a -686 kernel (non-SMP) over the -386 kernel is less than 1%. There is not enough to even worry about the benefit. So continue use the -386 kernel, with the comfort that it isn't degrading your performance as much as you think :) The whole reason we went with -generic, -386 kernels in Edgy is because the -686 and -k7 Alt-SMP kernels there didn't improve performance enough over the -generic version to warrant them either. -- Fail to boot smp kernel https://launchpad.net/bugs/24533 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
