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From: nickkral@america.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Symmetric Multi-Processing
Date: 26 Apr 1996 18:31:37 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department, University of California at Berkeley
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In article <3180D16D.41C6@wcom.com>,
Lance Heller  <lance.heller@wcom.com> wrote:
>I have an application requiring multiple cpu's and would like to use
>FreeBSD if it supports symmetric multi-processing.  Does it?

FreeBSD doesn't support SMPs.  However, if you have the source code
for the application, you might want to try it out on Linux.
The later 1.3.* kernels in Linux have support for SMPs. 

For more info about Linux, check out:

  http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/
  news:comp.os.linux.answers

For more info about SMP Linux, a starting point is:

  http://www.linux.org.uk/SMP/title.html

For info about SMP under Linux, you should subscribe to the Linux SMP
mailing list.  To subscribe, send e-mail to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu.
In the body of your message, put:

  subscribe linux-smp

Sorry if you were only looking for a *BSD solution.  Linux is the only
commonly used free-UNIX available on PCs which has SMP capability.

Take care,
-- Nick Kralevich
   nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu