On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 18:40, Yann Golanski wrote: > Which of 4.7, -STABLE, -CURRENT should I use?
On a production machine you should run 4.7 release and only track the upgrades for that release. 5.0 will be out soon, it has rewritten SMP code (SMPng) which will help improve SMP performance, but the early adopters notes, say that it is unfinished and might tend to be slower than SMP in for 4.7. SMP so far has been really stable for me under 'heavy' load (10-15) for both 4.7 and 5.0 RC and I haven't noticed much difference in speed. Hardware notes say that Athlon XP is supported but that you should search the SMP mailing list for problems with the chipset you might be using. http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists > What are the things I need to keep in mind while installing? After you boot, you will have to recompile the kernel to support SMP. See the handbook on how to configure, compile and install an SMP kernel. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html After you that check for these messages in dmesg: $ cat /var/run/dmesg.boot FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): apic id: 1, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 cpu1 (AP): apic id: 0, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 io0 (APIC): apic id: 2, version: 0x00170011, at 0xfec00000 SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! You can also run top(1), there will be an extra column C which shows which CPU a process is running on. -- Khairil Yusof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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