Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 15:05:55 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Matthew Graybosch <matthew@starbreaker.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, athomas@unity.ncsu.edu Subject: Re: Single processor !! Message-ID: <15263.49187.489885.672913@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <95816156@toto.iv>
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Matthew Graybosch <matthew@starbreaker.net> types: > Hi Ashley. I've heard that the most recent versions of FreeBSD=20 > run on multiple processors. I think the limit is 16 processors.=20 > Linux also runs on multiprocessors, but the stock kernel that=20 > comes with most Linux distros is a uniprocessor kernel. If you=20 > want SMP on Linux you'd have to build your own kernel. Same=20 > with FreeBSD, AFAIK. You do have to rebuild the FreeBSD kernel to do that. Last time I installed Linux on an SMP system, it detected and used both processors without a kernel rebuild. Of course, that could be a feature of the distribution I chose. BeOS does SMP in the commercial version. Solaris does SMP on Sparc; I'm not sure about x86. Windows 2K and Windows NT do SMP, Windows 9x does not. I'm not sure about Windows NT. I'd be surprised if there wasn't a table somewhere on the web listing operating systems and SMP support information. I couldn't turn it up at google, though. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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