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Dennis George wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Acutally I was wondering if there is no support for SMT / SMP then can
> freeBSD support dual processors..... Or can I utlize dual-processor in its
> fullness ?????????

yes.
in 5.3 or 6.0 very yes
in 5.2 yes
in 4.x mostly yes

:-)

> 
> Dennis
> 
> Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote: Dennis George wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I looking for SMT capability in freeBSD...... And found the following
>> extract in a document... saying that 4.3 BSD has no support for SMT.....
>> does the current/latest version of freeBSCD (5.2 or 6.0) has the support
>> for SMT ??????
>> 
> 
> 
> yes.. it's the current area of development.
> 
> what do you want and I can tell you how well we support you..
> 
> 
> 
>>>> It (4.3 BSD) has no support for processor affinity or binding. It also 
>>>> has no mechanism for distinguishing between CPUs of varying capability,
>>>>  which is important for SMT (Symmetric Multi-Threading).
>> 
>> Thanks in advance....... Dennis
>> 
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