From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 15 3:38:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3CD7337B40E for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 03:38:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 83144 invoked by uid 100); 15 Aug 2001 10:38:19 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15226.20763.719192.719830@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 05:38:19 -0500 To: "Eric Lam" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual Processors in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <99099657@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Eric Lam types: > Do I need to do some extra configuration to utilize dual processors in > FreeBSD? I have a dual Pentium Pro box, and I don't see the second > processor listed in dmesg and startup. Thanks for your help. You need to build a custom kernel with SMP support enabled. Read the handbook on building a custom kernel, and read /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC for instructions on enabling SMP. 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