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Old October 8th, 2007   #1
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Multi core support

i have a quad core Q6600 but i have felt that Ubuntu is slow..............i also run vista on my comp and it is EXTREMELY fast.......is there some thing wrong?? considering ubuntu is supposed to be faster, isnt it??
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Old October 8th, 2007   #2
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Re: Multi core support

yes it is. hmm .

what seems slow?

application?
general?
boot?
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Old October 8th, 2007   #3
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Re: Multi core support

with no more information that "my pc is slow". i just could think that you dont have the drivers of your video card?
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Old October 8th, 2007   #4
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Re: Multi core support

I had this same problem.

I'm also running a q6600 and my problem was that I was running the wrong kernel (an i386 kernel, which didn't have SMP support, so it only supported one core.)

post the output of

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uname -a
please?

mine appears as such:
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Linux andy-desktop 2.6.22-13-generic #1 SMP Thu Oct 4 17:18:44 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
Note the SMP in the middle.
If yours does not appear similar we can provide advice on how to fix that
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Old October 23rd, 2007   #5
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Re: Multi core support

i have a intel core 2 duo.which version of ubuntu do i install to enable multicore support
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Old October 23rd, 2007   #6
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Re: Multi core support

i wish i had a quad core too
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Old October 24th, 2007   #7
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Re: Multi core support

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"i have a intel core 2 duo.which version of ubuntu do i install to enable multicore support"
it doesn't matter which "version" of Ubuntu you install (I'm assuming you mean the difference between Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Gobuntu/other non-official distributions), the key for SMP support is to use a generic kernel, and not an i386 kernel.

all versions have the ability to use a kernel which supports multi-core systems.
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Old October 24th, 2007   #8
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Re: Multi core support

as wheredidrealitygo mentioned...SMP kernel should work for you fine..
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