From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed May 10 20:26:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from gargoyle.apana.org.au (brisba6.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.66.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6BD037B907 for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 20:26:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by gargoyle.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA00605; Thu, 11 May 2000 13:22:28 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner.apana.org.au(203.3.126.132), claiming to be "ROADRUNNER" via SMTP by gargoyle.apana.org.au, id smtpdIRj603; Thu May 11 13:22:23 2000 Message-ID: <00cd01bfbaf8$87821c10$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> From: "Doug Young" To: "Steven D. Meacham" , "Marty Poulin" Cc: "Steven D. Meacham" , References: <20000510.23275302@mis.configured.host> Subject: Re: Question re:dual processors Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 13:24:48 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have already read the FAQ and portions of the handbook and I knew > that SMP is supported by 3.0 and above. I really wanted to know if it > is enabled "out-of-the-box" or if kernal tweaking is needed like with > Linux. > It does need a spot of tweaking, but thats infinitely more straightforward in FreeBSD than it ever was in linux ...... You do need to read the relevant parts of the handbook / Complete FreeBSD / mailing list archives / links on the subject at freebsd.org , but thats all I had to do to get SMP running. I'm usually the last to recommend the regular docs for raw beginners, but in this case all the info needed is provided with *all* steps explained in full :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message