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On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Sean Chittenden wrote:

> > 	FreeBSD 4.8 or 5.1?
> 
> 4.8 is currently faster than 5.1.

  Probably not, especially for SMP.  4.8 uses a single giant lock on the
kernel, and 5.1 has that mostly removed.


Tom