Subject: Re: Running SMP port-i386 on dual core AMD64 chips
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/10/2005 16:12:02
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> David Brownlee wrote:
>
>> Will an MP i386 kernel run on a dual core AMD64 box?
>>
>> We are currently running a heavy Java tomcat appliatoin server
>> on Asus A8V Deluxe based machines and looking for some more speed,
>> but as its all 32 bit java binaries we'd rather not switch to
>> port-amd64 just yet...
>>
> It should, if you use MPACPI.
Wonderful - thanks. AMD X2 4800+ ordered :)
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