From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 10 6:17:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.184.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 617AC37B408 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 06:17:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.6/8.11.4) id f9ADHlQ20386; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:17:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lowell) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dual processor support References: <20011009191832.4245784a.nmace85@yahoo.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 10 Oct 2001 09:17:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: nmace85@yahoo.com's message of "Tue, 9 Oct 2001 23:09:27 +0000 (UTC)" Message-ID: <44669nljlw.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG nmace85@yahoo.com (Nathan Mace) writes: > the only freebsd verion that currently supports dual processors on i386 > chips is -Current or 5.0..right? Wrong. > so if i put 4.4-stable on a dual processor box, and use a commerical app > that DOES support dual processors will it still take advantage of both > processors? i know the OS won't but i'm wondering about the app. You need the kernel scheduler to know how to put processes on both CPUs. Fortunately for you, 4.4-stable does. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message