From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 27 14:06:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA27518 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 14:06:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA27508 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 14:06:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id QAA16446; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 16:07:49 -0600 Received: from p75.mixcom.com(198.137.186.25) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma016409; Thu Mar 27 22:07:22 1997 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970327155944.00b7c8c0@mixcom.com> X-Sender: sysop@mixcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 15:59:44 -0600 To: Steve From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: The jump to 3 Cc: David Greenman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 08:56 AM 3/26/97 -0500, Steve wrote: >> Symetric Multi-Processing. ...the ability to have multiple CPUs >> simultaneously executing processes on a machine. >> > >I was too chicken to ask this, and am glad it was asked! Hehe! I knew what is was for, just the "S" part was bugging me. You need some guts for an admin job, still not fun when something breaks on an upgrade. Digged for a read_me came up null. >You guys are just as smart as you get ! One off-list reply went so far as to say that 2-8 processors can be used. ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990