Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 10:56:38 +0700 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: To SMP or not to SMP Message-ID: <20130108105638.7ef9d6c2@X220.ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <1357611958.66651.YahooMailClassic@web121603.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1357611958.66651.YahooMailClassic@web121603.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
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Hi, On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 18:25:58 -0800 (PST) Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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. I ran a single CPU version of FreeBSD until my last single CPU got hit by a lightning last April or May without any problems. I never saw a reason to include the overhead of SMP for this kind of machine and I also never ran into problems with this. Erich
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