Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 14:52:14 -0400 From: "Jason Francis" <bsdsup@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP support in FreeBSD versus Linux? (technical question no flame) Message-ID: <F150CPx33E1ioWwr2UA0001a210@hotmail.com>
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>Note: the following is not supposed to be flaimbait... I am trying to >understand more about SMP in kernels in general and would like a technical >explanation.. > >Which is supposed to have better SMP scalability: >the new linux kernels 2.4.x >or >FreeBSD 4.3? > >Why? Linux will have better SMP scalability and will deliver better SMP performance than FreeBSD 4.x. This is because the Linux kernel has fewer coarse locks than the FreeBSD kernel. Linux doesn't scale as well as Windows 2000 because of both coarse-grained locks and the lack of IO completetion ports. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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