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Date:      Sun, 09 Jun 1996 12:23:27 -0700
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        nathan@netrail.net (Nathan Stratton), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: does freebsd support SMP? 
Message-ID:  <968.834348207@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Jun 1996 12:16:10 PDT." <199606091916.MAA01285@phaeton.artisoft.com> 

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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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