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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: does freebsd support SMP? 
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>
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>> DOes freebsd supoort SMP?
>
>Yes.  There is a working SMP /usr/src/sys code tree that can be SUP'ed
>or CTM'ed.  You do a normal CVS checkout, then you add:
>
>options		SMP			# enable SMP
>options		NCPU=2			# or whatever max you want
>
>To your normal -current config file, config, makedepend, make, and
>install the SMP kernel.  Then rebbot.  You are running SMP.

Well, you clearly havn't tried it Terry :-)

Boot single user and then:
	sysctl -w kern.smp_active=2
to start the second CPU...

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