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Date:      Tue, 6 Nov 2001 15:11:55 -0700 (MST)
From:      FreeBSD user <freebsd@XtremeDev.com>
To:        Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com>
Cc:        "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Multi-processor Support
Message-ID:  <20011106151114.H9464-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com>
In-Reply-To: <002101c16690$04212790$0a00000a@atkielski.com>

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You have to do that for every other OS out there. Ie. Linux. NT/2000 (you
don't compile it, you just load the pre-compiled SMP kernel).

On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Anthony Atkielski wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
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