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Date:      Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:46:20 +0200
From:      Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
To:        Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMP and softupdates?
Message-ID:  <v04220806b5d01d504873@[195.238.1.121]>
In-Reply-To: <20000828193605.A290@zippy>
References:  <20000828193605.A290@zippy>

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At 7:36 PM +0000 2000/8/28, Alex Zepeda wrote:

>                         Perhaps in a rush to get started, I've compiled and
>  been using a SMP kernel even before the second processor arrives.  This
>  has worked fine, however I've gotten some rather weird hangs and crashes
>  resulting in a nice lost+found directory on the usr fs.

	Personally, I'm astonished that an SMP kernel will actually boot 
and run on a uniprocessor machine.

	Before pointing any fingers at softupdates, etc... I think that 
the first thing I'd do on this machine is switch back to using a real 
uniprocessor kernel, and then see if I could replicate the problems.

--
   These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy
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