AMD Opteron Kernel Help

carlosinfl · 04-09-2007, 05:18 PM

I have dual AMD Opteron's running a 32-bit Debian "Etch" which by default installed the 2.6.18-4-486 kernel however I was wondering if I should be using the 2.6.18-4-686 kernel. Which would you install for this system?

Code:

# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 15
model           : 5
model name      : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246 HE
stepping        : 10
cpu MHz         : 2009.296
cache size      : 1024 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow ts fid vid ttp
bogomips        : 4020.95

HappyTux · 04-10-2007, 11:44 AM

Debian amd64 install with the normal default kernel unless of course there is some particular reason you only want to use a 32bit install on a 64bit machine then I believe you need the -686 to get it to use the extra cpu(s).