Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:07:02 +0300 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Multiple CPUs without SMP Message-ID: <20051020150701.GB973@eucla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420510200706w4fe7afc7rdc4e89d6a2769200@mail.gmail.com> References: <cb5206420510200415t4d3ad5ene761d356b43ff69b@mail.gmail.com> <20051020125504.GG1128@eucla.lemis.com> <cb5206420510200706w4fe7afc7rdc4e89d6a2769200@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thursday, 20 October 2005 at 18:06:29 +0400, Andrew P. wrote: > On 10/20/05, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> wrote: >> On Thursday, 20 October 2005 at 15:15:39 +0400, Andrew P. wrote: >>> I don't need SMP, I would settle on manually assigning CPU affinity >>> to each processor, but I gather FreeBSD can only handle 2+ CPUs with >>> SMP enabled. >> >> I'm wondering if you have misunderstood the purpose of SMP >> (symmetrical multiprocessors). That's the architecture of the >> motherboard. If you want to use the second processor, you're >> effectively saying that you want to use SMP. An SMP kernel is one >> that supports them. > > Thanks for your answer. > > NUMA architecture would fit some of our servers so much better. But > SMP has its own strengths which we'll try to use. Right, but NUMA is different hardware from SMP. We don't support any "real" NUMA hardware. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers
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