On 2005-01-12 18:41, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas writes: > > GK> You need to enable SMP too, to allow the FreeBSD kernel to use the > GK> second (hyper-threaded) CPU. > > I found it, in a file called SMP. Why is the SMP option tucked away in > a separate file? [...]
The 'separate file' is NOTES. This file is actually the complete reference of options that the kernel supports, so it's not like the SMP option is hidden or something. > I imagine this will give me a bit more horsepower for the buck, > although--with only 0.2% of the machine busy under normal load even with > a single processor--I guess I wasn't exactly processor-bound to begin > with (I'd run out of I/O capacity long before running out of processor). > But why not profit from what's there, eh? Because it's not always a 'profit'. The locking and synchronization overhead is not always negligible. Please, read the rest of the thread too :-) - Giorgos _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
