From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Oct 14 06:55:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA17758 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 06:55:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from mail.id.net (mail.id.net [199.125.1.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA17751 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 06:55:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rls@mail.id.net) Received: from server.id.net (server.id.net [199.125.2.20]) by mail.id.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id JAA05116; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 09:57:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Shady Received: (from rls@localhost) by server.id.net (8.8.5/8.7.3) id JAA15830; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 09:55:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199710141355.JAA15830@server.id.net> Subject: Re: SMP In-Reply-To: from Nathan Morton at "Oct 14, 97 08:07:11 am" To: nmorton@mylanders.com (Nathan Morton) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 09:55:14 -0400 (EDT) Cc: mark@club-web.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > >We have a machine that currently runs bsdi2.01 and are getting ready to > > >put freebsd on it. It has a dual processor board and was wondering if > > >anybody is using Freebsd with 2 processors and how it is > > >working out? > > > Form what i understand, BSDI doesn't support (or use) dual processors... > > same with freebsd.. though i might be wrong. > > > No bsdi doesn't support dual processors, but freebsd3.0 does. I've used FreeBSD 3.0 with dual pentium pro 200's and it seemed to work okay, although the disk xfer speed was significantly less than a similar setup single pp200 (Both w/asus motherboards & IDE drives). Dunno what the problem was there, but we ended up scrapping the project so I never really got to tinker to much with it. -- Rob