Sergey Babkin wrote: > 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).
Nope, you most certainly can do this, I have such a box. One cpu is running at 866MHz, the other at 933MHz. The front-side-bus is the same speed though (133MHz), just the internal clock multiplier within the cpu is different. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
