FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE on a two procesor system

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Wed Dec 15 07:14:43 PST 2004


On Monday 13 December 2004 03:32 am, KC Somaratne wrote:
> Can I use FreeBSD on a two processor system? or does it have to be
> symmetric
> (2x2 => 4 cpu) to run freebsd?

Symmetric refers to how the CPUs access memory, not the number of CPUs.  
FreeBSD/SMP supports anywhere from 2 to 16 CPUs, though more than 4 or 6 may 
not currently work too well.

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