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Date:      Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:09:46 +0000
From:      "Bruce O'Neel" <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
To:        Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Command to start and stop a cpu
Message-ID:  <20060117160946.GA1171@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>
In-Reply-To: <84dead720601162002j3fad952ar73c3be8b6197aaa9@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20060116185354.GA22674@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> <20060116192146.GA16298@ra.aabs> <84dead720601162002j3fad952ar73c3be8b6197aaa9@mail.gmail.com>

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Thanks!

cheers

bruce

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:32:49AM +0530, Joseph Koshy wrote:
> hb> To my knowledge FreeBSD does not support that feature on any platform.
> 
> However, you can disable CPUs using the 'machdep.hlt_cpus' sysctl knob,
> ensuring that no thread is scheduled on such a CPU.  This knob is described
> in smp(4).
> 
> --
> FreeBSD Volunteer,     http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy
> 

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