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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:19:13 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Cc:        Mikhail Teterin <mi@video-collage.com>, current@freebsd.org, alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SMP on Alpha?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003100918020.79394-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <00Mar10.123332est.115241@border.alcanet.com.au>

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On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> On 2000-Mar-10 12:06:18 +1100, Mikhail Teterin <mi@video-collage.com> wrote:
> >Will the -current version of FreeBSD  run on a multi-CPU axp machine and
> >use all of  the CPUs?
> 
> Not yet, but Real Soon Now.
> 
> > Would that  be a reliable box  (assuming the admin
> >sometimes knows  what he  is doing)?
> 
> -current comes with all the usual `not for production use' caveats,
> and (without any slur on Doug Rabson, who's doing the work), you'd
> be very game taking FreeBSD's first cut at Alpha/SMP and putting it
> into production.

On the other hand, a uniprocessor alpha has a decent amount of horsepower
and should be suitable for use in production.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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