From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 19 2:43:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 508F514D3D; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 02:43:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@oldserver.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.105.241] (helo=adv) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 10vHen-0006ik-00; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 09:43:25 +0000 Message-ID: <005401beba38$5ccfa6c0$0b00000a@adv.oldserver.demon.nl> From: "Marc Schneiders" To: , Cc: Subject: Re: Multi processor support? Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 11:44:44 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG dvwd@wwdg.com wrote: >From the (very) few items i can find on the freebsd web pages it looks like 3.2 supports MP. Does it do it >automagicly? No, you have to compile a kernel with SMP enabled. This is easy though. Info on the first page mentioned below. >How can I tell if it's working and using both cpu's in my system? > Dmesg will thell you when the second CPU is up in the air. Top shows you which CPU is doing what. (In 3.1 in any case, which I am still using.) >Also, is there any way to control what processes happen on >which cpu? I don't think so. See, however the first page given below, where all the information is. > >Are there any man/how to pages for setting up SMP? > http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html has all the important info, including how to do it. http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~sakai/html/mycomputer.html page of a happy user with a benchmark comparison between one and two CPU kernels. Good luck! Marc Schneiders To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message