The Kernel confugaration for the redhat kernel which is supplied with 6.1 (The cartman version) has a bug in the checksum it uses to calculate the spped for the procesor for examploe the earlier kernel which was supplied with the 6.0 version i.e hedwig version reported the speed for pII 233Mhz processor as 596 MB/sec and used the same for further processing while the cartman versio in 6.1 calculates the same as lesser than the p5_mmx and uses the p5_mmx speed 545MB/sec for further processing. which implies that I am underutilising my processror power when I am using redhat 6.1 than when I am using redhat 6.1.