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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