smp in RC2
Scott Long
scottl at freebsd.org
Tue Nov 2 10:50:12 PST 2004
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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