From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 14 18:46:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA07552 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 18:46:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from abby.skypoint.net (abby.skypoint.net [199.86.32.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA07430 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 18:45:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bruce@zuhause.mn.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by abby.skypoint.net (8.8.7/jl 1.3) with UUCP id UAA11464; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 20:45:39 -0600 (CST) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by zuhause.mn.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) id UAA00606; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 20:44:16 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 20:44:16 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199802150244.UAA00606@zuhause.mn.org> From: Bruce Albrecht To: "Gilbert H. Bollinger III" Cc: Subject: Re: SMP In-Reply-To: <000701bd3954$ce067e10$7ccc06d0@rijn> References: <000701bd3954$ce067e10$7ccc06d0@rijn> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 20.3 "Vatican City" XEmacs Lucid Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Also, you shouldn't be sending HTML messages to this list. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message