[NTLUG:Discuss] advice and counsel on an smp kernel migration

[David Camm]

i am going to be upgrading our production web server shortly, and my
hardware guru insists that i will get better performance and longer
useful life from a 2-cpu configuration. the system is running redhat 5.2

never having done this before, i'm a bit concerned, so i have the
following questions....

1. any bad experience with SMP on the 2.0.36 kernel?

2. can i gen the kernel now on the uniprocessor system and then replace
the motherboard?

3. if the answer to 3 is yes, can i run the new kernel run on the
existing single cpu motherboard if i decide to dealy the hardware
upgrade?

any help would be greatly appreciated.

david camm
@dvanced web systems