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Date:      Sat, 14 Feb 1998 20:44:16 -0600 (CST)
From:      Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org>
To:        "Gilbert H. Bollinger III" <rijn@hitter.net>
Cc:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: SMP
Message-ID:  <199802150244.UAA00606@zuhause.mn.org>
In-Reply-To: <000701bd3954$ce067e10$7ccc06d0@rijn>
References:  <000701bd3954$ce067e10$7ccc06d0@rijn>

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Gilbert H. Bollinger III writes:
 > Is the SMP FreeBSD done, still alive, or did the project get killed?

It was merged into FreeBSD-current about 6 months ago.  At this time,
there's one big kernel lock, a few small kernel locks, and no kernel
threading, so SMP is not a big win for a system that does a lot of
system calls or for an application that is multithreaded.  Having said 
that, I'm running SMP, and I have no major complaints about performance.

FreeBSD-current has had some stability problems since around
Christmas, so if you want to install it, you should be reading the
FreeBSD-current mailing list.

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