Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:53:17 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, timo.schoeler@riscworks.net Subject: Re: strace broken in 7.0? Message-ID: <200801111753.m0BHrH3K016220@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20080111161342.15fd5d9c.timo.schoeler@riscworks.net>
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Timo Schoeler wrote: > Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > > By the way, as far as I know, FreeBSD already runs on machines with > > > a non-power-of-two number of cores: > > > > - I've still got a 6-way PPro motherboard in the closet upstairs > > (and a number of such ran FreeBSD way back then last millennium > > when they were impressively powerful systems :) > > Thanks for saving my time. It was built by a company that no longer > exists, IIRC, but I don't remember its name. It's the ALR Revolution 6x6 board. It's a six-way SMP socket-8 board that required a hell of a power supply and was a good replacement for a radiator. I remember several people running FreeBSD on it in the previous century. Nowadays a single-core processor is probably much faster and consumes a fraction of the power. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd cat man du : where Unix geeks go when they die
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