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> References: <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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