From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 22 21:33:16 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0348F16A41F for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 21:33:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mistry.7@osu.edu) Received: from crumpet.united-ware.com (ddsl-66-42-172-210.fuse.net [66.42.172.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6217443F2 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 21:11:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mistry.7@osu.edu) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (ddsl-66-42-172-210.fuse.net [66.42.172.210]) (authenticated bits=0) by crumpet.united-ware.com (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j6ML8Kwj002899 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:08:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mistry.7@osu.edu) From: Anish Mistry To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Brandon Fosdick Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:11:04 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <42E151B4.7030500@bfoz.net> In-Reply-To: <42E151B4.7030500@bfoz.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1492933.Dykjf673B7"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200507221711.12690.mistry.7@osu.edu> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_99,MYFREEBSD2 autolearn=no version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on crumpet.united-ware.com Cc: Subject: Re: SMP support maturity? AMD64x2 or FX-57? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 21:33:16 -0000 --nextPart1492933.Dykjf673B7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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=20 it's working fine as long as I'm using the 4BSD scheduler. =2D-=20 Anish Mistry --nextPart1492933.Dykjf673B7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBC4WDwxqA5ziudZT0RAtEXAJ9Ma05EFPFrmZsSlPZao90goNHHVwCgu6Vn o031UtVuktPhyAoIrM+/zQY= =t0+3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1492933.Dykjf673B7--