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. ScottReceived on Tue Nov 02 2004 - 17:50:12 UTC
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