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Date:      Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:33:32 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com>
To:        Adam Migus <adam@migus.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Force 1 CPU on SMP kernel?
Message-ID:  <20030128122234.F66869@alpha.siliconlandmark.com>
In-Reply-To: <49491.192.168.4.2.1043774271.squirrel@mail.migus.org>
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On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Adam Migus wrote:

> Yes, just to be more explicit.  What I want to do is get the
> 'real' difference a second processor makes.  ie. If I run
> GENERIC I'm not incurring the overhead associated with SMP/APIC.
>  I want to use the same kernel making as small a change as
> nessessary to have the machine start/use just one CPU.

I'm not aware of any hacks to disable APs through loader.conf. If you're
trying to benchmark the system's performance with 1 vs N CPUs, you're best
off pulling all but the BSP CPU out of the machine. For such a benchmark
to be accurate, you shouldn't make any software changes (kernel, daemons
or startup configs).

Regards,

> Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
> Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >



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