Re: smp in RC2

From: Scott Long <scottl_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 11:51:20 -0700
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
Received on Tue Nov 02 2004 - 17:50:12 UTC

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