Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 15:36:13 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: Andriss <andriss@argate.com> Cc: Gerardo Gallardo <ggallardo@sawtek.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DELL Poweredge server Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809181534520.22193-100000@shell6.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980917215200.14196A-100000@tasam.com>
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On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Andriss wrote: >On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Jan B. Koum wrote: > >> >> I have two Dell PowerEdges 2300 running just fine. They are very, >>VERY fast also. I am attaching dmesg output below. FreeBSD will handle 4 >>CPUs just fine also. What chipset is Raid5 controller using? > >I thought 2.2.7, and all releases below 3.0 did not fully use multiple >CPU's and just had them idle while using the main CPU.. am I wrong? > >If FreeBSD can do that, I should buy an extra CPU for my 2.2.7 box :-) > My PowerEdge only has single CPU at the moment. I am running 3.0 however and if I ever get second CPU it would work just fine. You are right, 2.2.x branch does not and never will have SMP support. >thanks for all input.. > Your welcome, -- Yan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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