From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 11 15:55: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedex.is.co.za (fedex.is.co.za [196.4.160.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AD7837B403 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 15:55:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from c8-pta-89.dial-up.net (c8-pta-89.dial-up.net [196.39.119.90]) by fedex.is.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA19526; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 00:54:47 +0200 (SAST) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 00:56:57 +0200 (SAST) From: The Psychotic Viper X-X-Sender: To: Nathan Mace Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: dual processor support In-Reply-To: <20011009191832.4245784a.nmace85@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20011012005411.L86181-100000@lucifer.fuzion.ath.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Hi, sorry if this is "old" but ran into trouble with my mail and busy respooling and rereading, On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Nathan Mace wrote: > the only freebsd verion that currently supports dual processors on i386 > chips is -Current or 5.0..right? I think you have it confused somewhere with either SMP being redone or maybe SMP for Alpha based systems? -STABLE supports i386 SMP afaik, > so if i put 4.4-stable on a dual processor box, and use a commerical app > that DOES support dual processors will it still take advantage of both > processors? i know the OS won't but i'm wondering about the app. cant say for sure it *will* but if it works like it says it should it has to:) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message