Which Kernel for Dualcore Intel CPU - singel or SMP

Hi,

today I've noticed, that on two of our dualcore intel servers non-smp-kernels where installed by RH EL5 by default. Now I was thinking, if I do get any benefit installing the smp-kernel ...? Any ideas or suggestions?

Regards

Götz Reinicke

rpm -qa|grep kern
kernel-2.6.18-8.1.4.el5

Doing a "cat /proc/cpuinfo" showes:

processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 6
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20GHz
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 3200.492
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 6
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx cid cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 6403.64

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 6
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20GHz
....

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