From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Apr 16 13:37:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA28678 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 13:37:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-11.mail.demon.net (relay-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.137]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA28670 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 13:37:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from longacre.demon.co.uk ([158.152.156.24]) by relay-10.mail.demon.net id aa1012117; 16 Apr 97 20:45 BST From: Michael Searle Message-ID: To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP question. References: <199704161654.KAA17607@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 20:14:07 BST X-Mailer: Offlite 0.09 / Termite Internet for Acorn RISC OS Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Steve Passe wrote: > Hi, >> I have Neptune dual-Pentium motheboard. Currently the one P-90 >> installed. FreeBSD-2.2. If I install the second P-90 does performance >> grow ? > some things yes, some things no... in general its a win. > there is some possibility that the P-90 (I assumme you mean P5-90) will > be a problem. That vintage of P5 is from the days when the APIC section > was somewhat unstable, and often required a "matched pair" of CPUs, ie 2 > from the same stepping and rev level. Is this ever necessary for a 2 or 4 P6-150? -- Michael Searle - csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk