From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 17 23:19:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA06445 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 23:19:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA06432 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 23:19:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id JAA09892; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 09:21:26 +0300 (EEST) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 09:21:26 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi To: dennis cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970417182959.00b2e9c0@etinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [some snipping of CC:-s done] 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 > > > > > > >