Yes, it will use all your cores. I don't understand your question about "blade" servers, but they are just a different form factor of the essentially the same hardware. If the hardware is supported SMP should work just fine.
PS: SMP is what lets you use all your cores: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_multiprocessing -- Jeremy Chase http://twitter.com/jeremychase On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Mihai Popescu B.S. <mihai...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I will reformulate the question. Sorry for this, but it sleeps off topic. > > So, I'm interested about Intel Core 2 Duo family and i3, i5, i7 > families. I don't know what SMP is about. > I remember UNIX has no threads, just processes spawn by fork(). > > Having this in mind, will a processor from upper categories help me > and how - by using all its cores or just some extra L2 or L3 cache. > Are there some differences in the way OpenBSD runs on a processor from > upper categories and some "blade" server with many stand alone > processors. > > Many thanks.
