From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 20 15:28: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2860C37B401 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:28:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailgate.sri.com (mailgate.SRI.COM [128.18.243.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 94B9D43E6A for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:27:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hogsett@csl.sri.com) Received: (qmail 13254 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2002 22:27:29 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO mailgate.SRI.COM) (127.0.0.1) by mailgate.sri.com with SMTP; 20 Aug 2002 22:27:29 -0000 Received: from quarter.csl.sri.com ([130.107.1.30]) by mailgate.SRI.COM (NAVGW 2.5.1.18) with SMTP id M2002082015272929169 ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:27:29 -0700 Received: from axp.csl.sri.com (axp.csl.sri.com [130.107.2.30]) by quarter.csl.sri.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g7KMRw46003866; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:27:58 -0700 Received: from axp.csl.sri.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by axp.csl.sri.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7KMRwNL075513; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:27:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hogsett@axp.csl.sri.com) Message-Id: <200208202227.g7KMRwNL075513@axp.csl.sri.com> To: Lord Raiden Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Freebsd and multi-cpu systems In-Reply-To: Message from Lord Raiden of "Tue, 20 Aug 2002 18:31:51 EDT." <4.2.0.58.20020820182847.00a02280@192.168.0.25> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 8.8 (Time Passed Me By)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:27:58 -0700 From: Mike Hogsett Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It is relatively simple. Look at /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC specificly the following lines when commented out produce an SMP kernel : #options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel #options APIC_IO # Symmetric (APIC) I/O Also read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html HTH, Michael Hogsett > Hi all. Just wondering about something. I had someone today who > mentioned to me about doing a Freebsd server with dual P3's and a huge raid > array. The raid I'm cool with. The Dual P3's I'm not. I know that > there's something special that goes into making Freebsd work correctly on a > multi-cpu system and make it work correctly. > > Can anyone tell me how to do this or point me towards a faq on how this > is > done? Thanks. I'm sure it involves some kernel hacking and recompiling, > so I'm game for that if need be. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message