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Date:      Fri, 18 Sep 1998 15:36:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com>
To:        Andriss <andriss@argate.com>
Cc:        Gerardo Gallardo <ggallardo@sawtek.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DELL Poweredge server
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809181534520.22193-100000@shell6.ba.best.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980917215200.14196A-100000@tasam.com>

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On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Andriss wrote:

>On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Jan B. Koum  wrote:
>
>>
>>	I have two Dell PowerEdges 2300 running just fine. They are very, 
>>VERY fast also. I am attaching dmesg output below. FreeBSD will handle 4
>>CPUs just fine also. What chipset is Raid5 controller using?
>
>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?
>
>If FreeBSD can do that, I should buy an extra CPU for my 2.2.7 box :-)
>

	My PowerEdge only has single CPU at the moment. I am running 3.0
however and if I ever get second CPU it would work just fine. 

	You are right, 2.2.x branch does not and never will have SMP
support.

>thanks for all input..
>

	Your welcome,

-- Yan


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