Ben, Thanks for your info on kernel performance. Still, it just behaves as a 386 running at 3Ghz. What about other issues like special instructions and the larger quantities of memory handling available in modern processors. My old 386 system had a 80 Mb hard drive, my current system has a lot more than that as RAM... Futhermore, I have seen several "experts" say that even with a single processor like the Pentium 4 with hyperthreading, enabling SMP can bring benefits at the performance level and optimization of process handling. I can remember at least one application (I suppose it was something regarding SETI) that detected 2 processors under SMP and that gave me the option of using 1 or both and if I´m not wrong K3B can also take profit of that.
Don´t you think that, performance issues apart, the 686 kernel, SMP or not, should work fine like in other distributions? After all, it´s not necessary to re-invent the wheel. If they manage to make it work why can´t we in our favorite distribution? In what regards your suggestion I´ve tried to boot the 686 kernel with the nosmp option. It doesn´t work, the system freezes right at the begining. Mounting essential modules ok Mounting root file system and nothing... The hard drive blinks for a few seconds and everything comes to a halt. -- 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
