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Subject: Re: SMP Machines
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On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Brian K . Walters wrote:

> I'm new to freebsd and I am looking to replace Linux with freebsd
> on my Dell workstation that I have at home.  How is the performance
> of freebsd on SMP machines.  I looked around but did not see any
> reference to freebsd on SMP machines like they have kernels
> specifically tailored for SMP in Linux.  
> 
> Does freebsd have that capability?

Sure, just uncomment the appropriate lines in your kernel config file,
recompile and install the kernel:

# To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed
# options       SMP                     # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
# options       APIC_IO                 # Symmetric (APIC) I/O
# Optionally these may need tweaked, (defaults shown):
#options        NCPU=2                  # number of CPUs
#options        NBUS=4                  # number of busses
#options        NAPIC=1                 # number of IO APICs
#options        NINTR=24                # number of INTs

James Smallacombe		      PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
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