From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 13 16:56:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5C4C16A4E1 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:56:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AB4443D49 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:56:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.171.127.191] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1G14UR-000Npo-WE; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:56:40 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20060713164723.72788.qmail@web33304.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060713164723.72788.qmail@web33304.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <27EB8D93-6563-4521-AD7C-16FD06B47BED@shire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:56:39 -0600 To: danial_thom@yahoo.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.171.127.191 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:56:40 -0000 On Jul 13, 2006, at 10:47 AM, Danial Thom wrote: > > > --- "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" > wrote: > >> >> On Jul 13, 2006, at 9:22 AM, Danial Thom wrote: >> >>> Simply enabling SMP on a single processor >> system >>> adds 20-25% overhead in freebsd 6.1. Again, >>> readily admitted/accepted by the developers. >>> There is no way to recover that in >> efficiency, at >>> least not for a long time. >> >> So don't enable SMP on a single cpu system. >> Easy enough to avoid. >> >> Chad > > Don't use SMP, because the overhead stays with 2 > processors, with little additional benefit (as > other tests show). Easy enough to avoid. > SMP has overhead but FreeBSD on 2 processors can do more work than FreeBSD on the same HW with just 1 processor. That is a fact. > Are you people stupid or delusional? No, and the data you posted did not support your allegations of performance either. Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net