smp related

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 10:08:59AM +0100, Jorn Argelo wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 23:10:47 -0800 (PST), Petersan Jean-Pierre wrote
> > I have this old dual processor motherboard which
> > comprise of two PIII - 1Ghz processor.  I just finish
> > installing FreeBSD 5.1 on there.  After I loged in, I
> > noticed the OS detected only one of the two
> > processors.
> > 
> > I would like to know how I can get the system to
> > function as a multi-processor server.
> >
> 
> Well, FreeBSD 5.1 is a relatively old release. You should try 5.3, or even 
> better, 4.10. The latter has better support for SMP then 5.3 has.

Absolutely; and once you've updated, you can add support for SMP by
modifying your kernel configuration and recompiling the kernel.  See
the extensive documentation about this in the freebsd handbook.

Kris
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