FreeBSD 5.3 et multiprocessor

[Claus Guttesen]

> The nasty surprise being which I note a notable
> reduction in the performances. 
> The machine is a HP LT6000r, quadri Xeon 700 with
> 2Go of RAM. 
> 
> The results are appreciably the same ones with a
> kernel including or not 
> "options SMP". 

Did you copy GENERIC to a new file and performed the
required changes to this new file, or did you change
and  recompiled GENERIC?

What does dmesg give you?

regards
Claus