From owner-freebsd-smp Sat Nov 6 20:39:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.zuhause.org (c2-178.xtlab.com [205.215.217.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 131A014D9D for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 20:39:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bruce@zuhause.mn.org) Received: by mail.zuhause.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id CD1767C32; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 22:39:19 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Albrecht MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14373.631.665259.999578@celery.zuhause.org> Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 22:39:19 -0600 (CST) To: Joachim Strombergson , freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WINE and Star Office in FreeBSD SMP -STABLE? In-Reply-To: <14372.25923.224346.841617@celery.zuhause.org> References: <38228954.F9B16724@emw.ericsson.se> <14372.25923.224346.841617@celery.zuhause.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bruce Albrecht writes: > Joachim Strombergson writes: > > As the subject suggest, could anyone tell me if WINE and/or Star Office > > works on FreeBSD STABLE running in SMP-mode? > > > > I have thought about going to CURRENT, but am a bit concerned about > > being able to get the sucker running again if the system would turn out > > to be built on one of the few temporarily bad snapshots. > > The last time I checked, which was about 6 months ago, is that no > version of 3.x after 3.0 supports programs that use shared memory with > an SMP kernel, and there are no plans to retrofit the code from -current. Looking back at old freebsd-smp messages, I see that the real issue is that you can't fork if you've got shared memory and are running an SMP kernel. I know WINE has this problem, and I think Star Office does too, but I don't know if there are any other major applications that get hit by this. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message