From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 2 5:16:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34F8814E41 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 05:16:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id NAA13202; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:10:59 +0200 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id OAA13780; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 14:09:28 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA15275; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:55:00 +0200 (MEST) Received: from alcatel.fr by telss1 (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id OAA26794; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 14:05:58 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <37CE67AE.6B9AA949@alcatel.fr> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 14:03:58 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot Reply-To: thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr Organization: ALCATEL CIT Nanterre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kedzierski Cc: "FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: SMP - how many? References: <004f01bef4aa$a9f3d6e0$0ac951d1@activetech.net> <37CE2DE1.184FCFD8@alcatel.fr> <017f01bef51d$025f2880$0ac951d1@activetech.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kedzierski wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > SMP in FreeBSD depends strongly on the CPU/Chipset functionalities : it > > only works with genuine Intel processors and supports 2 processors with > > standard P-II/P-III and 4 processors with Xeon procs. > > > > If your six-P-Pro uses an exotic chipset, you may be out of luck. > > > Its an ALR machine ( now Gateway) with Intel GX chipset. > Would FreeBSD limit the availability of 6 cpus to 4 then? even if the > chipset supports it? don't know ! You may have more, up-to-date, answers on the smp- or (perhaps) current- mailing lists. TfH > > Thanks > Kris > kris@activetech.net > > 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