From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 11 18:09:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E2FC16A41B for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:09:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from timo.schoeler@riscworks.net) Received: from relay.riscworks.net (v32231.1blu.de [88.84.154.71]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CF6313C4D9 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:09:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from timo.schoeler@riscworks.net) Received: from zoidberg.riscworks.net (f054174248.adsl.alicedsl.de [78.54.174.248]) by relay.riscworks.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E736C6F1898; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:09:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from zoidberg.riscworks.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zoidberg.riscworks.net (Postfix) with SMTP id A77C91D96; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:09:09 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:09:09 +0100 From: Timo Schoeler To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, timo.schoeler@riscworks.net 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> Organization: RISCworks Environtech X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; amd64-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Oliver Fromme , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strace broken in 7.0? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:09:06 -0000 Thus Oliver Fromme 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 ;)