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Old 8th June 2008
JMJ_coder JMJ_coder is offline
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Hello,

I build the -current/GENERIC kernel, and it works (the GENERIC kernel now includes SMP support automatically). I must admit that I am a little leery of using a kernel from -current due to its potential for instability, but it works and the 4.0 release doesn't (I tried building my own GENERIC.MP kernel from the stable branch, and it failed to consistently boot, too).

But, now the it uses both cores, it is blazingly fast. It's a real speed daemon! I mean it is really scary!! I can compile the GENERIC kernel in about 7 minutes (including all depends)!!!! NetBSD (with my SMP) is definitely faster than Linux (though I have no benchmarks to back up my claims).

I am looking forward to version 5 (I have my doubts that there will be a 4.1) which will incorporate SMP by default.
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