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Date:      Sat, 16 Mar 2002 16:14:55 -0500
From:      Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Interesting sysctl variables in Mac OS X with hw info
Message-ID:  <3C93B5CF.CB4CCE71@bellatlantic.net>
References:  <68214.1016063680@winston.freebsd.org> <20020314001819.GB74829@elvis.mu.org> <3C8FEDDC.4CDC316F@mindspring.com>

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Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> It got really bogged down when someone pointed out that
> they were running CPUs with different clock rates in their
> SMP box, just to see what the net effect would be.  THe

As far as I understand, you just physically can't do it: 
the P-II CPU initialization depends on all the CPUs on the
bus running at the same rate. Or if you can do it then you still
should never do it. Unless you actually have a NUMA machine
(as opposed to an SMP machine).

-SB

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