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Date:      05 Nov 1998 16:04:57 -0500
From:      Cory Kempf <ckempf@enigami.com>
To:        Scott Myron <zamy27@mail.hsonline.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dual processors...
Message-ID:  <x71znhq29y.fsf@singularity.enigami.com>
In-Reply-To: Scott Myron's message of "Wed, 04 Nov 1998 16:35:22 %2B0200"
References:  <36406629.708AC997@hsonline.net>

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Scott Myron <zamy27@mail.hsonline.net> writes:

>How does FreeBSD work on a machine with dual processors? does 3.0
>support 'em? thanks.

Fairly well.  You need to turn on SMP in the kernel config file though.

Compiling the kernel, I get about a 75% improvement, RC5 seems to
about double (then again, it is purely CPU bound).  YMMV.

+C


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