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From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To: dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
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On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, dennis wrote:

> >	nope, SMP support is alive and well in 3.0+. I believe its 
> >integrated as part of 3.0+...isn't it?  But we've had SMP capabilities
> >through patches since at least 2.2
> 
> Great. So the most powerful boxes can only be used by hackers and
> not for any serious commercial purpose requiring stablilty.......didnt
> we just have a (rather heated) discussion about this?

	Since SMP support is still in its infantcy(sp?)...pretty much so,
but you'd get more accurate information if you joined the smp@freebsd.org
mailing list and asked there...

Marc G. Fournier                                
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org