Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 09:21:26 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970418091942.9571A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970417182959.00b2e9c0@etinc.com>
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On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, dennis wrote:
> At 06:26 PM 4/17/97 -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> >On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> >
> >> > database server. And you'd need a growth path beyond uniprocessor
> >> > Intel, which
> >> > free UNIXen (including Linux, as far as I'm concerned) don't have now.
> >>
> >> freebsd doesn't have multiple intel processor support?
> >> is this true?
> >
> > 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?
The SMP work is anything but ready. You would most likely want to use it
in production work yet :-) Last I checked it was not even merged back into
-current.
Sander
>
> db
> >
> >Marc G. Fournier
> >Systems Administrator @ hub.org
> >primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary:
> scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
> >
> >
> >
>
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