Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:03:07 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: "P.Moulin" <boris.moulin@caliopea.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux_base and SMP support ? Message-ID: <4870A66B.9090807@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <48709359.3010400@caliopea.com> References: <48709359.3010400@caliopea.com>
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P.Moulin wrote: > > Hi there. > > I recently added linux_base-fc4 on a host, to run linux > setiathome enhanced versions (aka crunchers). > > The problem is that on multicore engines (core 2 duo, pentium D, etc...) > where before there was 2 freebsd-crunchers on 2 differents core, > now, with linux-crunchers, the 2 crunchers are sharing only 1 core. > > Can someone tell me what's wrong with this ? Have I missed something ? > Is it an incompatibility from linux_base with smp hardware ? > > This problem seems to affects only freebsd 6.x, not the 7 branch. > My kernels are all compiled with SMP support. > > I'm working for years with freebsd, but consider I'm really a newbee > with linux. How do you know they are sharing one core, and what do you mean by "2 crunchers"? Are they separate processes, or a single threaded process? Kris
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