From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 24 20:58:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BB3616A4B3 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 20:58:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lakemtao07.cox.net (lakemtao07.cox.net [68.1.17.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EA594403F for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 20:58:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from micheal@tsgincorporated.com) Received: from dredster ([68.12.67.176]) by lakemtao07.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with SMTP id <20030925035834.CXPB15705.lakemtao07.cox.net@dredster>; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 23:58:34 -0400 Message-ID: <061101c38319$5ad6e640$0201a8c0@dredster> From: "Micheal Patterson" To: , References: <20030925002805.NIWE272.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@[10.137.100.62]> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:58:38 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: Re: FreeBSD and SMP support X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 03:58:49 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: To: 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