Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:11:04 -0400 From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@bfoz.net> Subject: Re: SMP support maturity? AMD64x2 or FX-57? Message-ID: <200507221711.12690.mistry.7@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <42E151B4.7030500@bfoz.net> References: <42E151B4.7030500@bfoz.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Friday 22 July 2005 04:06 pm, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > SMP support in FreeBSD seems to be a perpetually favorite feature > to gripe about, but every release seems to say that its getting > better. I'm about to build a new server and am trying to determine > if I should go with dual procs or just a single. The AMD64x2 is > slightly cheaper than the FX-57 so I'm leaning that way, but it > would be a rather pointless savings if SMP isn't well supported. > > So, is SMP in -STABLE ready for primetime? Can it really make use > of two processors? _______________________________________________ I'm running RELENG_6 on a dual processor Opteron in 64 bit mode and it's working fine as long as I'm using the 4BSD scheduler. -- Anish Mistry [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBC4WDwxqA5ziudZT0RAtEXAJ9Ma05EFPFrmZsSlPZao90goNHHVwCgu6Vn o031UtVuktPhyAoIrM+/zQY= =t0+3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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