Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:58:38 -0500 From: "Micheal Patterson" <micheal@tsgincorporated.com> To: <jaco2001uk@ntlworld.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and SMP support Message-ID: <061101c38319$5ad6e640$0201a8c0@dredster> References: <20030925002805.NIWE272.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@[10.137.100.62]>
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----- Original Message ----- From: <jaco2001uk@ntlworld.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 7:28 PM Subject: FreeBSD and SMP support > Hi > > I'm after some general information on SMP support on FreeBSD. > > I've been running FreeBSD 5.1 for a couple of months as a Web server on a single CPU system and have had no problems - in fact it's performed excellent. I've now got a "new" PC that has dual PII 300 CPU's. > > I have read a lot of articles regarding the supposed poor support of SMP in Pre 5 releases but that now apparently is starting to change in 5.X releases. > > I've also read articles relating to performance issues with MySQL on FreeBSD. Although apparently performance has drastically improved in MySQL 4 series releases though - if compile with Linux Threads Support (?) > > My questions really are how well does FreeBSD 5.X or 4.X running Apache and MySQL perform with 2 CPU's and does Linux perform better? > > Many thanks > > David > > ----------------------------------------- > Email provided by http://www.ntlhome.com/ > > I can't speak for anyone else but myself, but I'm currently running Sendmail, Apache, Mailman, Qpopper, Mysql, and Samba on a dual 800mhz system and it's doing just fine on 4.8 and processing approx 25k messages every 24 hours including AV scanning. I've yet to see it fall below 60% idle under heavy traffic. It normally sits at 86 - 99% idle. So, for me, the smp works rather well. -- Micheal Patterson Network Administration Cancer Care Network
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