FreeBSD 5.3 et multiprocessor

[Joseph Koshy]

> The nasty surprise being which I note a notable reduction in 
> The machine is a HP LT6000r, quadri Xeon 700 with 2Go of RAM.

Please post 'dmesg' output from 4.2 and 5.3.  What workload
do you see the slowdown on?  How are you measuring performance?

We cannot help you unless we have more information about the
problem.

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