From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 18 15:37:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA18808 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 15:37:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA18741 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 15:36:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkb@best.com) Received: from localhost (jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.9.0/8.9.0/best.sh) with SMTP id PAA23350; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 15:36:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell6.ba.best.com: jkb owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 15:36:13 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " X-Sender: jkb@shell6.ba.best.com To: Andriss cc: 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message