From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 24 00:10:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A46B16A420 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:10:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from smtp1.utdallas.edu (smtp1.utdallas.edu [129.110.10.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53D9743D48 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:10:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from utd59514.utdallas.edu (utd59514.utdallas.edu [129.110.3.28]) by smtp1.utdallas.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C673388CA9 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:10:17 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:10:17 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl To: freebsd-questions Message-ID: X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Some SMP questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:10:17 -0000 When you do a "default" install of 6.0-RELEASE, does the kernel have support for SMP? Or do you have to compile a custom kernel to get that? Does this mean SMP is not enabled? kern.smp.cpus: 1 kern.smp.disabled: 0 kern.smp.active: 0 kern.smp.maxcpus: 1 Can I set these with sysctl? Or do I need to recompile the kernel? (I'm assuming I need this: kern.smp.cpus: 2 kern.smp.disabled: 0 kern.smp.active: 1 kern.smp.maxcpus: 2 Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/