Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:27:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: chad@shire.net (Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC) Cc: danial_thom@yahoo.com, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? Message-ID: <200607131927.k6DJRkEj018727@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <389A6BC7-4CD5-4390-8EAE-A1528C9AFA36@shire.net>
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> > > 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 Why would anyone want to enable SMP on a single CPU system anyway. That would prove nothing other than that someone doesn't know what SMP is. Statistics about stunts like that might help pad a student paper, but they don't reveal much of value. ////jerry > --- > Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC > Your Web App and Email hosting provider > chad at shire.net
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