Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:09:09 +0100 From: Timo Schoeler <timo.schoeler@riscworks.net> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, timo.schoeler@riscworks.net Cc: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strace broken in 7.0? Message-ID: <20080111190909.76d7e1ab.timo.schoeler@riscworks.net> In-Reply-To: <200801111753.m0BHrH3K016220@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <20080111161342.15fd5d9c.timo.schoeler@riscworks.net> <200801111753.m0BHrH3K016220@lurza.secnetix.de>
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Thus Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> spake on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:53:17 +0100 (CET): > Timo Schoeler wrote: > > Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > > > > By the way, as far as I know, FreeBSD already runs on machines > > > > with a non-power-of-two number of cores: > > >=20 > > > - 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 :) > >=20 > > Thanks for saving my time. It was built by a company that no longer > > exists, IIRC, but I don't remember its name. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Best regards > Oliver We had one machine of this type at the ISP I worked for in the 90ies. Don't remember the OS that ran on it, though. Nice machine, for x86 ;)
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