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Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 17:33:43 -0800
From: Craig Burgess <craig-burgess@home.net>
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To: Mikhail Teterin <mi@video-collage.com>
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Subject: Re: SMP on Alpha?
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nonauthoritative answers:

"No" (not yet) and "it depends."

SMP does not work on Alpha/AXP (yet).

I'd say it depends on what you want your "production machine" to do
whether you would want to use a single-CPU Alpha and FreeBSD. I've been
running 4-current without any noticeable problems -- but it's not doing
much (Web & firewall/NAT). (PC164/EB164 21164-a)

Craig Burgess

Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Will the -current version of FreeBSD  run on a multi-CPU axp machine and
> use all of  the CPUs? Would that  be a reliable box  (assuming the admin
> sometimes knows  what he  is doing)?  Do I want  to make  a "production"
> server out of an axp box at all in the near future? Thanks!
> 
>         -mi


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