Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 05:08:35 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>, "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Multi-processor Support Message-ID: <005101c166c4$24742860$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <002101c16690$04212790$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
SMP kernels won't boot on some uniprocessor hardware. Not a lot of them but some. I'm sure the core team would welcome efforts put in to take care of this. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Anthony >Atkielski >Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 10:55 PM >To: Andrew C. Hornback; FreeBSD Questions >Subject: Re: Multi-processor Support > > >You have to recompile the kernel just to support more than one processor?? > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net> >To: "Johnny Lum" <jlum@aebc.com>; <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> >Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 06:38 >Subject: RE: Multi-processor Support > > >> FreeBSD supports anywhere from 1 to 6 processors, as far as I know. I've >> seen it scale that far personally. Others have seen it run on 8 processor >> machines. Two processors is a piece of cake with a simple kernel >recompile. >> >> --- Andy >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Johnny Lum >> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 12:33 AM >> To: questions@FreeBSD.org >> Subject: Multi-processor Support >> >> >> Hi, I have two intel pentium III processors. Would freeBSD recognize the >> system as having 2 processors?? >> or does it only support 1? >> >> Thanks >> >> Johnny >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?005101c166c4$24742860$1401a8c0>