From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 17 23:08:42 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAA8816A4CE for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 23:08:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.goinet.com (mail.goinet.com [208.207.72.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20BD643DA0 for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 23:08:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from mail.goinet.com (localhost.goinet.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.goinet.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j4HN8STq081479; Tue, 17 May 2005 18:08:28 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from localhost (tshadwick@localhost)j4HN8Rni081476; Tue, 17 May 2005 18:08:28 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.goinet.com: tshadwick owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 18:08:27 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Shadwick To: Kris Kennaway In-Reply-To: <20050517221541.GB1499@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: <20050517180746.V62516@mail.goinet.com> References: <1649.192.168.1.155.1116349526.squirrel@vipersystems.biz> <20050517221541.GB1499@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.85.1, clamav-milter version 0.85 on mail.goinet.com X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Jason Lieurance Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4 SMP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 23:08:42 -0000 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 >