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On 01/07/2013 18:25, Barney Cordoba wrote:
> I have a situation where I have to run 9.1 on an old single core
> box. Does anyone have a handle on whether it's better to build a
> non SMP kernel or to just use a standard SMP build with just the
> one core? Thanks.

You can build a SMP kernel, but you'll get better performance (in my
experience) with SCHED_4BSD on single cpu than with ULE.

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