From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 21 09:17:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA27637 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 09:17:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from caipfs.rutgers.edu (root@caipfs.rutgers.edu [128.6.19.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA27625 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 09:17:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jenolan.caipgeneral (jenolan.rutgers.edu [128.6.111.5]) by caipfs.rutgers.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA17358; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 12:17:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jenolan.caipgeneral (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA06730; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 12:16:14 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 12:16:14 -0400 Message-Id: <199704211616.MAA06730@jenolan.caipgeneral> From: "David S. Miller" To: james@wgold.demon.co.uk CC: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <335A18FD.36C2@wgold.demon.co.uk> (message from James Mansion on Sun, 20 Apr 1997 14:24:13 +0100) Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 14:24:13 +0100 From: James Mansion I disagree. Clearly the sources are there, but they are not normally compiled in. It is not the case that a uniprocessor is simply a particular case of an SMP configuration - the code is quite different, and the default build (and versions provided from eg Red Hat) do not have the code enabled. At least on Sparc, there are SMP kernel rpm's for redhat-4.1, if during the install phase an SMP system is detected, the SMP kernel rpm's are installed instead of the UP ones. ---------------------------------------------//// Yow! 11.26 MB/s remote host TCP bandwidth & //// 199 usec remote TCP latency over 100Mb/s //// ethernet. Beat that! //// -----------------------------------------////__________ o David S. Miller, davem@caip.rutgers.edu /_____________/ / // /_/ ><