From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 17 19:05:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA10524 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 May 1998 19:05:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cody.usls.edu (cody.usls.edu [202.47.133.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA10333 for ; Sun, 17 May 1998 19:03:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from francis@cody.usls.edu) Received: (qmail 318 invoked by uid 1001); 18 May 1998 02:03:11 -0000 Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 10:03:10 +0800 (PHT) From: Francis Vidal To: Randy DuCharme cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD on SMP machines In-Reply-To: <35547A79.4399BA@nconnect.net> 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 Sat, 9 May 1998, Randy DuCharme 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 ;-) how about support for Pentium IIs? are there people using FreeBSD 2.x/3.x on PII machines? are the machines reliable? --- francis vidal | usls.NET | university of st. la salle, bacolod city, PH PGP key available at ftp://ftp.usls.edu/pub/pgpkeys/francis.pgp "birds of the same feathers are birds!" - rhoderick samonte's class To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message