To SMP or not to SMP

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 18:25:58 -0800 (PST)
Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have a situation where I have to run 9.1 on an old single core box.
> Does anyone have a handle on whether it's better to build a non SMP
> kernel or to just use a standard SMP build with just the one core?
> Thanks.

I ran a single CPU version of FreeBSD until my last single CPU got hit
by a lightning last April or May without any problems.

I never saw a reason to include the overhead of SMP for this kind of
machine and I also never ran into problems with this.

Erich