From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 18 05:51:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA20768 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 05:51:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from icicle.winternet.com (icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA20763 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 05:51:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nrahlstr@mail.winternet.com) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA01210; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 07:50:44 -0500 (CDT) Received: from tundra.winternet.com(198.174.169.11) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0) id xma001143; Fri, 18 Sep 98 07:50:14 -0500 Received: from localhost (nrahlstr@localhost) by tundra.winternet.com (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id HAA17570; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 07:50:13 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: tundra.winternet.com: nrahlstr owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 07:50:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Nathan Ahlstrom Reply-To: nrahlstr@FreeBSD.ORG To: Andriss cc: "Jan B. Koum " , Gerardo Gallardo , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DELL Poweredge server In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I thought 2.2.7, and all releases below 3.0 did not fully use multiple > CPU's and just had them idle while using the main CPU.. am I wrong? The -stable branch will never have SMP support. The second CPU would be silently ignored. > If FreeBSD can do that, I should buy an extra CPU for my 2.2.7 box :-) Better wait until 3.0. Nathan Ahlstrom nrahlstr@winternet.com Run FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message