From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 29 16:39:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt011n65.san.rr.com [204.210.13.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B85A91564D for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 16:39:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA26349; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 16:39:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37A0E635.B0234866@gorean.org> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 16:39:33 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Esbrandt Cc: Neil Bradley , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yet another question - SMP! References: <37A0D8D8.83582A81@mentis.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steven Esbrandt wrote: > > I've used FreeBSD 3.2 on a dual PII 450 with no problems for several months. Of > course, single processor machines do the trick most of the time (read: even > ftp.cdrom.com is a single cpu machine). I wouldn't have even gone for the dual > processor machine except we were buying several machines at once and the NT > administrator wanted dual cpu. Then again, NT needs it... :) It depends on what you're doing with it. We're building dual processor boxes because we're doing highly cpu intensive operations on them. And FWIW, freebsd's smp code is just fine. With two processors it's a good match for anything out there, although with more processors we start to lose ground on efficiency. HTH, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message