Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 18:08:27 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Jason Lieurance <jason@vipersystems.biz> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4 SMP Message-ID: <20050517180746.V62516@mail.goinet.com> In-Reply-To: <20050517221541.GB1499@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1649.192.168.1.155.1116349526.squirrel@vipersystems.biz> <20050517221541.GB1499@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Was this a 5.4 change? Very important since I haven't migrated our systems from 5.3 to 5.4 yet. I have a test build running on a single cpu box without smp enabled. Would have sucked if I hadn't known that ahead of time... On Tue, 17 May 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 01:05:26PM -0400, Jason Lieurance wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a new Dell PowerEdge Dual Xeon 2.8 server and the freebsd install 'sees' 1 >> cpu. It loads the HT right but doesn't see the 2nd cpu at all. I went to rebuild >> kernel and 'options smp' is not even a choice. I add it along with the others that >> are mentioned for smp and when I run config it says in effect, 'doesn't understand >> smp option', meaning it can't be added. Didn't think setting up smp on bsd would be >> this much trouble. Any advice? Thanks. > > 'options smp' is indeed not the choice :-) > > Check the documentation (e.g. handbook, sample kernel configurations) > for precise instructions. > > Kris >
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