Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 07:35:38 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SMP and softupdates? Message-ID: <200008281435.HAA68028@pike.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <v04220806b5d01d504873@[195.238.1.121]> from Brad Knowles at "Aug 28, 2000 03:46:20 pm"
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Brad Knowles wrote: > 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. Well, it does work. Right now if we enable multiple CPU's with SMPng the machine instantly panics, so we use a sysctl that keeps all the extra processors waiting until we are ready to kill the machine. Until that point in time, however, the machine runs happily on 1 cpu, and can build world ok, etc. -- John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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