From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 15 02:23:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA06720 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 02:23:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA06711 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 02:23:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA25262; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 04:50:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199806150850.EAA25262@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: Using a bi-processor with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <19980615092910.A17017@gibet.prism.uvsq.fr> from Dang-Ngoc TUYET-TRAM at "Jun 15, 98 09:29:10 am" To: Dang-Ngoc.Tuyet-Tram@prism.uvsq.fr (Dang-Ngoc TUYET-TRAM) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 04:50:27 -0400 (EDT) Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-no-archive: yes Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: CyberPeasant X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dang-Ngoc TUYET-TRAM wrote: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Hello, > > I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.6 on a HP Vectra XU with a bi-processor intel > pentium 200Mhz > > How can I be told that the two processors are both used ? > Is there something to configure somewhere to tell FreeBSD that it can > uses the 2 ? (by rebuilding the kernel ??) > > I've seen on another machine where FreeBSD 3.0 was installed. When running > applications, in the 'top' output, I could see in the "state" > column CPU0 and CPU1 running. > > But not on my machine, so I believe that I don't use the 2 processors ? > Should I swap on FreeBSD 3 ? or is there just simply an option to configure > in the kernel building ? Right about 3. multiple processors are supported on 3, otherwise called "FreeBSD-current". Dave -- http://www.microsoft.com/security: `Microsoft Windows NT Server is the most secure network operating system available.' Don Quixote: `You are mistaken, Sancho.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message