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Date:      Tue, 02 Nov 2004 11:51:20 -0700
From:      Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
To:        Pete Carss <itinerant@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: smp in RC2
Message-ID:  <4187D728.2090103@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4187D55C.3010307@mac.com>
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Pete Carss wrote:
> Hello all,
>     Everything I've read about the 5.x series says that SMP is now 
> automatic. I've just installed RC2 on a dual pentium pro compaq box, and 
> it took a recompile of the kernel to get SMP working - is this as expected?
> 
> Pete

We turned off SMP on i386 and amd64 because it is a serious performance
penalty for UP machines.  There is a sys/i386/conf/SMP profile again.
In future releases we might provide both SMP and Up kernels, but for 5.3
there wasn't enough time to make it work.

Scott
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