From owner-freebsd-smp Sun Apr 27 19:06:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA12629 for smp-outgoing; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 19:06:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cypher.net (black@zen.pratt.edu [205.232.115.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA12624 for ; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 19:06:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from black@localhost) by cypher.net (8.8.5/8.7.1) id WAA06703; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 22:03:42 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 22:03:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Black To: Steve Passe cc: Mr M P Searle , smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quad Pro 150 motherboard? In-Reply-To: <199704280200.UAA23188@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk my point was that they are not for general consumption. certainly, there are certain applications which make use of 4 CPUs, but my day goes just fine with a single P6-150 even when doing frequent recompiles. b3n On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Steve Passe wrote: > 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 > >