From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 3 18:38:42 2002 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 239A337B400 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 18:38:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.21.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87E9143E42 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 18:38:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nkinkade@dsl-only.net) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (freebsd.localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (8.12.5/8.12.4) with SMTP id g741d98U005133; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 18:39:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nkinkade@dsl-only.net) Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 18:39:04 -0700 From: Nathan Kinkade To: jdeakle@dfxg.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP help Message-Id: <20020803183904.4fcc3539.nkinkade@dsl-only.net> In-Reply-To: <3D4C4A5B.5792C88@dfxg.com> References: <3D4C4A5B.5792C88@dfxg.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On Sat, 03 Aug 2002 16:25:47 -0500 Jeff Deakle wrote: > I just installed 4.6 on my duel CPU system. I added the below lines > to the Kernel config file just I had done for ver 4.0. (Which worked > great) Now, when I run 'config KERNEL' I get an error "unknown option" > for NINTR, NAPIC, NBUS & NCPU. > > Her is a clip form my kernel config file. Again, this same config > worked great for 4.0. > > # To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed > options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel > options APIC_IO # Symmetric (APIC) I/O > # Optionally these may need tweaked, (defaults shown): > options NCPU=2 # number of CPUs > options NBUS=4 # number of busses > options NAPIC=1 # number of IO APICs > options NINTR=24 # number of INTs I wonder if those options are outmoded? I just cvsuped RELENG_4 a few days ago and rebuilt my SMP system with with only options SMP and APIC_IO. I haven't benchmarked the system but the kernel reports that it is launching CPU 1. Also, the current LINT doesn't mention anything about those options either. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message