From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 10 1:17: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-11.mail.demon.net (finch-post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5836137B99B; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 01:17:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by finch-post-11.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12TLXT-000PKN-0B; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:16:56 +0000 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA49689; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:23:17 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:19:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Peter Jeremy Cc: Mikhail Teterin , current@freebsd.org, alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP on Alpha? In-Reply-To: <00Mar10.123332est.115241@border.alcanet.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2000-Mar-10 12:06:18 +1100, Mikhail Teterin 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. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message