From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 14 12:41:58 2002 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 88BFB37B401 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:41:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from lerlaptop.iadfw.net (lerlaptop.iadfw.net [206.66.13.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC77B43E6E for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:41:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lerlaptop.iadfw.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAEKfqq5068938; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:41:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:41:52 -0600 From: Larry Rosenman To: Steve Wingate , Will Froning Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xeons and Max # of CPUs supported Message-ID: <203950000.1037306512@lerlaptop.iadfw.net> In-Reply-To: <20021114123031.R4282-100000@daemon.velosystems.net> References: <20021114123031.R4282-100000@daemon.velosystems.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.0a5 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) 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 --On Thursday, November 14, 2002 12:32:33 -0800 Steve Wingate wrote: > On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Will Froning wrote: > >> I have a dual Xeon box with 4.7-stable installed (new 2.8GHz Xeons that >> is). When I compiled in SMP it only came up recognizing 2 CPUs instead >> of the 4 I was hoping for. >> >> Does FreeBSD not support the Hyper-Threading or is it that FreeBSD only >> supports 2 procs? And if it does support Hyper-Threading, is the second >> CPU recognized as the hardware CPU or the Hyper-Threaded one? >> >> Thanks, >> Will >> >> P.S. please cc me on the reply. >> >> -- >> Will Froning >> Unix Sys. Admin. >> (209)649-0098 >> wfroning@uop.edu >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > > FreeBSD does not support hyperthreading and likely won't until Intel > coughs up some documentation. Dmesg will report the physical processors > only. > Yes, I do have dual Xeons also. > What more documentation do you need than is in the 4 volume IA-32 set? I got the set from the Intel developer site, and it cost me $0.00. It has all the details on the HTT stuff. > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ >| Steve Wingate >| MCSE, CCNA Thu Nov 14 11:59:00 PST 2002 > +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ >| FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE >| 11:59AM up 4:27, 0 users, load averages: 0.19, 0.06, 0.02 > +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message