RHEL Kernel – EL or ELsmp?
EL use for Single CPU, old (PI, PII, Celeron). The kernel type is called ‘non-SMP kernel’.
ELsmp use for Multi core processor(dual core) or HT(HyperThreding). SMP is common from Symmetric multiprocessing
EL or ELsmp? I don’t know. Check your CPU! just that!
More Resource
Linux SMP Howto
Linux Parallel Processing Using SMP
Linux and symmetric multiprocessing
