Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 21:06:18 -0400 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Single processor !! Message-ID: <00f701c13bf0$4b7170c0$0e00000a@tomcat> In-Reply-To: <15263.49187.489885.672913@guru.mired.org>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mike Meyer > Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 4:06 PM > To: Matthew Graybosch > Cc: questions@freebsd.org; athomas@unity.ncsu.edu > Subject: Re: Single processor !! > > 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. Solaris 7 (and probably 8) for Intel do detect multiple processors and use them without a problem. NT does SMP, I don't believe ME does, and I could care less of XP does. --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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