From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 29 11:28:59 2005 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 1B6C716A4CE for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 11:28:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl (wcborstel.demon.nl [82.161.134.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5811643D45 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 11:28:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jorn@wcborstel.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.wcborstel.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20B0D4237; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:30:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (www.wcborstel.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 28410-07; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:30:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.wcborstel.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D5CA41E9; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:30:36 +0100 (CET) From: "Jorn Argelo" To: Robert Slade , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:30:36 +0100 Message-Id: <20050129112819.M88267@wcborstel.nl> In-Reply-To: <1106997177.5843.1.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> References: <1106997177.5843.1.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.50 20050106 X-OriginatingIP: 82.161.134.53 (jorn) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mail.wcborstel.nl Subject: Re: Free BSD 5.3 SMP Kernel 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: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 11:28:59 -0000 On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 11:12:57 +0000, Robert Slade wrote > Hi, > > I am new to Free BSD ( and Linux) and have just setup a rather old > Proliant 5000 as a test machine. It has Quad PII processors and I would > like to make use of them. The Install CDs only come with the 'Standard' > kernel. Looking through the handbook implies that support for > multiple processors in 5.3 was removed due to problems. > > I have seen references to a 5.3 SMP kernal though, is it possible to > get hold of this, or do I have to wait for 5.4 to be released? If so > when is this likely to be released. > > Sorry if this is a simple question. You'll have to recompile the kernel with SMP support. If you don't want to compile your own kernel, you can use SMP, located in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf. If you don't have that, you don't have your kernel sources installed. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable. html for more information. Do read every page of that chapter. Jorn > > Thanks > > Rob > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"