From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 8 02:26:01 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09E3B513 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 02:26:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from barney_cordoba@yahoo.com) Received: from nm28-vm0.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com (nm28-vm0.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com [98.138.91.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77C5E34D for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 02:25:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.138.226.179] by nm28.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 08 Jan 2013 02:25:59 -0000 Received: from [98.138.226.169] by tm14.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 08 Jan 2013 02:25:59 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1070.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 08 Jan 2013 02:25:59 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 181510.67102.bm@omp1070.mail.ne1.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 92793 invoked by uid 60001); 8 Jan 2013 02:25:59 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1357611958; bh=CJLDDtx7HUx31pGxVygwUAadE6FfqMLnrnFlsRqegS0=; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Rocket-MIMEInfo:X-Mailer:Message-ID:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=rBn9/nB+7WiGklpIa2ska9Dl03uRzzeUUYJn7YnGPtx83t79FyD7rzjvFKOKyIdETcRW2dX73jplZ3xplXc0hQswQezMfYO5AdBVUA4OESD90NhSk8rhM9dw9pI3A29rfDeNrpR+3hveujqkPX3/KvVBcZoG0wInoCSX+OFoCaM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Rocket-MIMEInfo:X-Mailer:Message-ID:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=RyZiq9l8tR6SmNBbMbI+QxSgk8XuZbx4SvLimDyZoK/XVdMZcFi0xOO7yO+74YOsqEgnuBWtgAbkE15StNn5vqrbSexRmDTYITJ9VaBJYKcVvkw/jYa0O1xQSMI+tbqR74W7thC0A8gMPeovy+b/qR87OujcltJ+0whZrpHxS/E=; X-YMail-OSG: w0aQv_cVM1nMz78HptFFtgqjoPJs0JYziT5keMO7XWGN1SL NRIzXtAVeJO7y8RtB.I191.HOoNvCSYmBSiCH3uU18v7zRkUGowRG64I8j7J pYxXmGh1gvoLnF3GD6TVkqXetFJJBHauUIbs3xpCB14D3KrvFFDSvLgZrwiY RGpCUd8AITplP8Pq.vMPY7Y33Lab9DwvyuL_C1i6OcuwD_lF0.uDXMagoS8S 99gvz1pfiGa9cE_AGD4yuWXXMsFIdLW_dZc4Ss8ZkdZ3Z7E3byo6oPtqqzn3 YwxQ.NVo7iKgAjDtoSzgmjqkggZ9FYW16qoE9Fq1uGdiJqyT0tSyaYkM10.d qlTADJlXCDPSot7RumfleTfS6ge07BsaONyvO3fDbvT15jLRqLW.oRNz2m32 uOhx._XSKe7AFX5njSKJKQCh9B9f4PtPOYHEPZtL6Rn1hWT5xrSzJiNiAYBk JlVkgKBpQneaAtxWxxbY25VStUWZXat3wp5HKGE1UfIBDyKYoy3u9OyOzjhi UkEePpQ-- Received: from [174.48.128.27] by web121603.mail.ne1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:25:58 PST X-Rocket-MIMEInfo: 001.001, SSBoYXZlIGEgc2l0dWF0aW9uIHdoZXJlIEkgaGF2ZSB0byBydW4gOS4xIG9uIGFuIG9sZCBzaW5nbGUgY29yZSBib3guIERvZXMgYW55b25lIGhhdmUgYSBoYW5kbGUgb24gd2hldGhlciBpdCdzIGJldHRlciB0byBidWlsZCBhIG5vbiBTTVAga2VybmVsIG9yIHRvIGp1c3QgdXNlIGEgc3RhbmRhcmQgU01QIGJ1aWxkIHdpdGgganVzdCB0aGUgb25lIGNvcmU_IFRoYW5rcy4KCkJDATABAQEB X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/15.1.2 YahooMailWebService/0.8.130.494 Message-ID: <1357611958.66651.YahooMailClassic@web121603.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 18:25:58 -0800 (PST) From: Barney Cordoba Subject: To SMP or not to SMP To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 02:26:01 -0000 I have a situation where I have to run 9.1 on an old single core box. Does anyone have a handle on whether it's better to build a non SMP kernel or to just use a standard SMP build with just the one core? Thanks. BC