<![CDATA[Dual-CPU support]]>If, hypothetically speaking, a person has a dual-CPU (say 2x Intel Xeon processors of the same type) machine and they wish to install pfSense on that machine, will it work to utilize both processors and all cores of the system? If not, are there plans to have it supported and what is the maximum amount of RAM that pfSense could utilize?

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/92105/dual-cpu-supportRSS for NodeSat, 11 Apr 2026 20:19:16 GMTMon, 23 Nov 2015 21:52:14 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Dual-CPU support on Tue, 24 Nov 2015 01:13:04 GMT]]>Different parts of FreeBSD are good at using more CPU cores. The network stack is getting better and FreeBSD 10(PFSense 2.2.x) has gained some benefits, and FreeBSD 11(PFSense 2.x/3.x) will have more.

The actual kernel itself can utilize a lot of CPUs for CPU bound work, but IO bound work is a work in progress.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/586041https://forum.netgate.com/post/586041Tue, 24 Nov 2015 01:13:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dual-CPU support on Mon, 23 Nov 2015 22:52:15 GMT]]>Thanks for the information. I greatly appreciate it!

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/586018https://forum.netgate.com/post/586018Mon, 23 Nov 2015 22:52:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dual-CPU support on Mon, 23 Nov 2015 22:06:14 GMT]]>Pfsense build on FreeBSD 10.1.

I found a old Post, FreeBSD 8-STABLE managed 32 CPUs. FreeBSD 10.1 dont manage less CPUs, i think.
And more RAM, as a SOHO Hardware do. It`s limited by Hardware.

Sorry for my Schoolenglish.

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