[ale] Compaq Reliant web server

[Armsby John-G16665]

The IT group here is junking an HP box with my web stuff.  I told them I did not want to port to NT, that I preferred to stay with Unix.  I suggested Linux as an alternative on an Intel box.  They accept the idea.  Hooray!  

They are suggesting a Compact Reliant series server which comes with a RED HAT CD.  They want to know if I need dual processors.  Frankly the box is only getting about 2,000 hits in a 24 hour period.  The current HP 9000 workstation has 256 meg of ram and a single 200 megahertz processor.  TOP is usually less than .1 except when I try to tar several thousand files over several days and then it jumps to 1.03 or so.  There is no discernable on the WEB server.

My question is: Am I correct in assuming that an out of the box installation of Mandrake 8.0/Red Hat 7.0 or equivalent will not by default see two processors?  Don't I have to do a kernel recompile and select multi processor?  

John