From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 22 15:10: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from matt.MUNICH.v-net.org (u57n248.hfx.eastlink.ca [24.222.57.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 528D737B479 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 15:09:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unisys (Windozzze [192.168.8.2]) by matt.MUNICH.v-net.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA01695; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 19:08:53 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from matt@researcher.com) From: "Matt Rudderham" To: , Subject: RE: SMP? Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 19:07:13 -0300 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <5FAB4FDDCA7DD41191AA00D0B74778C821D363@axcs21.cos.agilent.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I am curious about FreeBSD, being a Linux user for some time now, and would >like to try it out. My question is, does FreeBSD support SMP, and if so, to >what extent? I have heard various (and probably un-informed) responses >saying NO and YES but limited and poorly integrated....just want to know >what I am getting into before I get started! Jeff, As of 4.0-RELEASE: The FreeBSD SMP kernel supports motherboards that follow the Intel MP specification, version 1.4. Although, as the man page says: BUGS That would be a good guess... I don't have the knowledge to be able to compare it to Linux, although I have seen it in action on FreeBSD and it works:) - Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message