Comment 35 for bug 24533

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.