FreeBSD support in SMP platform

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 04 June 2004 09:20 am, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> twibmtc at yahoo.com.tw wrote:
> > Dear ALL
> >
> > I am james wang working at IBM taiwan. Recently, I tried to install
> >
> > FreeBSD V5.2 in IBMx455 ( Xeon CPU, 8 Way ), system.
> >
> > One way ( One CPU ) works well but system complaint to us when
> >
> > I installed 8 Ways CPU in system.
>
> Hyperthreading must be disabled because FreeBSD supports only 8 CPUs as
> I know.
>
> I run it with only two CPUs without any problems.

FreeBSD will see and support up to 16 CPUs, but it won't be very stable on 
probably more than 4 or 6.

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