Re: Recommended SMP Config

2006-03-17 Thread Tom Daly
Because CPU 1 is a hyperthread. So is CPU 3 for that matter. That makes sense, but CPU 3 shows up in top without setting machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1. ??? Tom -- Thomas J. Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dynamic Network Services, Inc. http://www.dyndns.com/ __

Recommended SMP Config

2006-03-17 Thread Tom Daly
Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 Release (amd64) on Dell Poweredge 2850s. So far, so good. I'm doing a pretty vanilla install of things, enabling SMP in the kernel, and that's pretty much it. This server has 2 EM64T CPUs in it. When looking at top, CPU 1 rarely shows up with processes on it. systat

Customized Releases with updated sources and a Custom Kernel

2006-03-16 Thread Tom Daly
Hi, I'd like to confirm my steps in building a customized FreeBSD release CD. The goal is to streamline server installation steps by having a CDROM that will install FreeBSD 6.0 Release p5, and install a custom kernel on the machine as well. I am taking the following steps: cd /usr/src/relea