From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 5 13:05:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA01783 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 13:05:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from singularity.enigami.com (singularity.enigami.com [208.140.182.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01775 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 13:05:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ckempf@singularity.enigami.com) Received: (from ckempf@localhost) by singularity.enigami.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA26286; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 16:04:57 -0500 (EST) To: Scott Myron , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual processors... References: <36406629.708AC997@hsonline.net> X-Copyright: Copyright (C) 1998 Cory Kempf. All Rights Reserved X-PGP-Fingerprint: 191E 2FB7 E27D 76C3 8E79 4D26 2B3B B20F 2A9C 1E1A X-PGP-Keyloc: ; finger ckempf@enigami.com From: Cory Kempf Date: 05 Nov 1998 16:04:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: Scott Myron's message of "Wed, 04 Nov 1998 16:35:22 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Scott Myron writes: >How does FreeBSD work on a machine with dual processors? does 3.0 >support 'em? thanks. Fairly well. You need to turn on SMP in the kernel config file though. Compiling the kernel, I get about a 75% improvement, RC5 seems to about double (then again, it is purely CPU bound). YMMV. +C -- Thinking of purchasing RAM from the Chip Merchant? Please read this first: Cory Kempf Macintosh / Unix Consulting & Software Development ckempf@enigami.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message