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On Jul 13, 2006, at 9:22 AM, Danial Thom wrote:

> Simply enabling SMP on a single processor system
> adds 20-25% overhead in freebsd 6.1. Again,
> readily admitted/accepted by the developers.
> There is no way to recover that in efficiency, at
> least not for a long time.

So don't enable SMP on a single cpu system.  Easy enough to avoid.

Chad

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