Tobias Weisserth wrote: > Hi everybody, > > this may be a really stupid question but I'm going to ask it anyway since I > didn't find anything using Google or in the archives. > > I was looking at > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#SMP > > I'm wondering if there are any disadvantages if I run a SMP kernel on a > machine with only one CPU. Is there any harm running an SMP kernel on a > machine with only one CPU?
There may be a performance hit (probably unimportant to most users) There may be some machines that may not run GENERIC.MP. On the other hand... There are some cases where GENERIC.MP on an SP machine can give better performance for SOME applications on some hardware....and the same HW and kernel can provide WORSE performance for other apps. again...most people will not notice the difference. HOWEVER, if it were all equal, there wouldn't be two different kernels. :) Nick.
