From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 6 5: 8:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98CB337B419 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 05:08:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id fA6D8ZT91068; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 05:08:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Anthony Atkielski" , "Andrew C. Hornback" , "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: RE: Multi-processor Support Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 05:08:35 -0800 Message-ID: <005101c166c4$24742860$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 In-Reply-To: <002101c16690$04212790$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" >To: "Johnny Lum" ; >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