From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 20 19: 9:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.kozubik.com (www.kozubik.com [198.78.70.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 437DE37B400; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:09:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (john@localhost) by www.kozubik.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g2L2mwe12733; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:48:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@kozubik.com) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:48:58 -0800 (PST) From: John Kozubik X-Sender: john@www To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Cc: Patrick Thomas , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is there overhead in SMP machines related to SMP ? In-Reply-To: <20020321130710.B49090@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Probably something else is going on. You can't really tell just from > vmstat. Note also that it's not very interesting to optimize the idle > state. 4.5 has a number of inefficiencies in SMP; we're addressing > some of them in 5.0. > thanks. if you don't mind I have some miscellaneous questions: 1. these inefficiences aren't such that it will keep me from using 4.5 SMP for production environments, are they ? 2. is 5.0 SMP slated to do 8 processors (or more?) 3. do you know how many processors sparc64 FreeBSD SMP supports ? Or will it always be the same number of procs that x86 supports ? thanks! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message