From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 11 20:14:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0B6837B401 for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 20:14:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 487E943FCB for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 20:14:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h4C3Dsos008105; Sun, 11 May 2003 22:13:54 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 22:13:54 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Jon Reynolds Message-ID: <20030512031354.GO49338@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1052706765.1549.52.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1052706765.1549.52.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: smp in 5.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 03:14:16 -0000 In the last episode (May 11), Jon Reynolds said: > I have read the release notes and not quite sure if it says what I think > it does. Will SMP be available on 5.x series on? And are there ny > gotcha's to it? SMP has been available since 2.* at least, and is not going away :) Don't enable hyperthreading, as neither scheduler understands the resource issues involved with them and will happily put two processes on one physical CPU, leaving others idle. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com