SMP questions

2008-08-28 Thread H.fazaeli
Hi all, I have 3 questions regrading SMP on freebsd 6.x: 1. Is there any userland tool/api to bound a process to a specific cpu? 2. Is there any way to force UP operation apart form recompiling kernel without SMP option? 3. Can someone shed some light on the logic of how schedulers

Re: SMP questions

2008-08-28 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 28 August 2008 07:59:00 H.fazaeli wrote: Hi all, I have 3 questions regrading SMP on freebsd 6.x: 1. Is there any userland tool/api to bound a process to a specific cpu? I don't think so. FreeBSD 7.x just got cpuset backported from -CURRENT. -- Kirk Strauser

Re: SMP questions

2008-08-28 Thread Ivan Voras
H.fazaeli wrote: Hi all, I have 3 questions regrading SMP on freebsd 6.x: 1. Is there any userland tool/api to bound a process to a specific cpu? This support is native to 8-CURRENT, I think most of it is backported to 7.1. 2. Is there any way to force UP operation apart form recompiling

Re: Some SMP questions

2006-02-25 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On February 23, 2006 7:23:53 PM -0500 Jerry Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The default kernel doesn't support SMP. You have to recompile with the SMP config and it'll start getting your other processor. Thanks, Jerry. I've compiled a few Linux kernels, and I can tell you, compiling the

Some SMP questions

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Schmehl
When you do a default install of 6.0-RELEASE, does the kernel have support for SMP? Or do you have to compile a custom kernel to get that? Does this mean SMP is not enabled? kern.smp.cpus: 1 kern.smp.disabled: 0 kern.smp.active: 0 kern.smp.maxcpus: 1 Can I set these with sysctl? Or do I

Re: Some SMP questions

2006-02-23 Thread Jerry Bell
The default kernel doesn't support SMP. You have to recompile with the SMP config and it'll start getting your other processor. Regards, Jerry http://www.bsdsec.com Paul Schmehl wrote: When you do a default install of 6.0-RELEASE, does the kernel have support for SMP? Or do you have to

Re: FreeBSD newbie general and SMP questions for i386]

2003-12-18 Thread Elijah Plunkett
Hi there Mark! - Original Message - From: Mark Wolfskehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 2:42 PM Subject: FreeBSD newbie general and SMP questions for i386] Hi, I'm a FreeBSD newbie. I'm considering installing either FreeBSD i386 or Linux

Re: FreeBSD newbie general and SMP questions for i386]

2003-12-18 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:42:19PM -0800, Mark Wolfskehl wrote: Hi, I'm a FreeBSD newbie. I'm considering installing either FreeBSD i386 or Linux on a 2 AMD Athelon CPU machine. The motherboard is an ASUS A7M266-D, and the machine has 2GB memory installed. I'm working on trying to

FreeBSD newbie general and SMP questions for i386]

2003-12-17 Thread Mark Wolfskehl
Hi, I'm a FreeBSD newbie. I'm considering installing either FreeBSD i386 or Linux on a 2 AMD Athelon CPU machine. The motherboard is an ASUS A7M266-D, and the machine has 2GB memory installed. I'm working on trying to answer some key questions before making a final decision which OS to