From owner-freebsd-smp Sun Apr 27 19:00:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA12237 for smp-outgoing; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 19:00:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (Ilsa.StevesCafe.com [205.168.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA12232 for ; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 19:00:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA23188; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 20:00:08 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199704280200.UAA23188@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 From: Steve Passe To: Ben Black cc: Mr M P Searle , smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quad Pro 150 motherboard? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 27 Apr 1997 20:38:47 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 20:00:08 -0600 Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, > a 4 or 6 CPU P6 board for *other* than a large server...think about that > for a few minutes. > > (hint: NT4 Workstation can't handle more than 2CPUs and that is the most > popular commercial SMP-capable OS) Actually we have several users reporting success with 4-CPU freeBSD SMP systems! A 4-CPU systems makes sense for more than just servers. A development system for one. With our parallel make you can keep 4 CPUs busy with a group of parallel compiles. -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD