linux_base and SMP support ?

[Kris Kennaway]

P.Moulin wrote:
> 
> Hi there.
> 
> I recently added linux_base-fc4 on a host, to run linux
> setiathome enhanced versions (aka crunchers).
> 
> The problem is that on multicore engines (core 2 duo, pentium D, etc...)
> where before there was 2 freebsd-crunchers on 2 differents core,
> now, with linux-crunchers, the 2 crunchers are sharing only 1 core.
> 
> Can someone tell me what's wrong with this ?  Have I missed something ?
> Is it an incompatibility from linux_base with smp hardware ?
> 
> This problem seems to affects only freebsd 6.x, not the 7 branch.
> My kernels are all compiled with SMP support.
> 
> I'm working for years with freebsd, but consider I'm really a newbee
> with linux.

How do you know they are sharing one core, and what do you mean by "2 
crunchers"?  Are they separate processes, or a single threaded process?

Kris