On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, a friend wrote: > ----- "Mike Miller" <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > > > We don't need SMP, but we'll take it if it is cheap (which I doubt). > > What do you mean by SMP? I usually think of it as Symmetric > Multi-Processing which is required for a multi core or multi processor > system and is available in the linux kernel. > > Given we've had hyper-threaded or dual core processors as standard on > the desktop for a number of years, I'd imagine most distros have SMP > enabled by default, or at least enable it as a result of hardware > detection. I do remember in the good old days requiring a kernel > recompile and setting the SMP flag. > > Did you mean something else by SMP? I think I was using that term inappropriately. What I meant was that I don't need to run multithreaded applications and so I don't need a system that allows for that. I think SMP is not what I was thinking it was and I guess I do need SMP and probably couldn't avoid it if I didn't want it! Mike