From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 9 08:48:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA24371 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 May 1998 08:48:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from atlantis.nconnect.net (root@atlantis.nconnect.net [207.227.50.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA24366 for ; Sat, 9 May 1998 08:48:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from randyd@nconnect.net) Received: from nconnect.net (birddog-mke-x2-24.nconnect.net [207.227.61.24]) by atlantis.nconnect.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA07732; Sat, 9 May 1998 10:45:21 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <35547A79.4399BA@nconnect.net> Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 10:47:05 -0500 From: Randy DuCharme Organization: Astrolab Development X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Francis Vidal CC: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD on SMP machines References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Francis Vidal wrote: > if i have a dual PPro machine, will FreeBSD 2.2.x take advantage of it? or > do i need the 3.x series? how about support for Pentium II? or dual 2.X Will *NOT* utilize your second CPU You must have 3.0-SNAP or Current. I run 3.0-980426-SNAP on 2 of my production machines. One's an older dual P-5, and the other is a dual PentiumPRO. They are both very reliable. ( and fast! ) Keep in mind that SMP stuff is in BETA and not recommended for production use. Caution is advised! ( although many of us use it ;-) http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/getstarted.html will get you started. Good luck -- Randall D DuCharme Systems Engineer Novell, Microsoft, and UNIX Networking Support Computer Specialists 414-253-9998 414-253-9919 (fax) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message