From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 22:02:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDB9E16A791 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 22:02:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.org) Received: from cydem.org (S0106000103ce4c9c.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.27.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A35B3443B1 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:45:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.org) Received: from freen0de (unknown [192.168.0.251]) by cydem.org (Postfix/FreeBSD) with ESMTP id 07ABD91ED4 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 13:45:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 13:45:36 -0800 From: To: Message-ID: <20061206134536.0c775367@freen0de> In-Reply-To: <200612061006.56852.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <200612041443.15154.josh@tcbug.org> <200612051736.47980.jhb@freebsd.org> <200612051707.46705.josh@tcbug.org> <200612061006.56852.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.2 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Venting my frustration with FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:02:14 -0000 > 512-way machine? Scaling on a 512-way machine is quite a different > ball of wax from scaling on 4-way, and scaling up to 32 and 64 is > going to be another ball of wax as well. can you give a few examples how scaling ability can be a function of the number of cores? seems like my curiosity exceeds my imagination today -- can't come up with any good reasons why this is true :) > John Baldwin [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2