From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Jan 9 09:38:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA11964 for smp-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 09:38:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (root@po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA11959 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 09:38:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from packet.eng.umd.edu (packet.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.184]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA02370; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:37:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by packet.eng.umd.edu (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA07860; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:37:55 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: packet.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:37:55 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@packet.eng.umd.edu To: ejc@naserver1.cb.lucent.com cc: FreeBSD-SMP@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Testing new machine In-Reply-To: <199701091738.MAA27883@barnacle.cb.lucent.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 9 Jan 1997 ejc@naserver1.cb.lucent.com wrote: > > > > > > I didn't see in your dmesg that the second cpu was turned on. > > > By chance did you "sysctl -w kern.smp_active=2" > > > > > > > You and Steve both caught that, and it sure was the problem. Right now > > I'm making a set of 2 CPU benchmarks, and they show definite improvements. > > > > I suppose I should put the sysctl somewhere in my rc file ... is there any > > particular place in there (has anything GOT to happen first) ? > > Chuck > I think your safe to put it in /etc/rc.local. AFAIK everything happens > before we get to /etc/rc. Thanks, that's what I was hunting. SMP is fun! ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------