From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 3 19:34:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA12339 for current-outgoing; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 19:34:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA12311; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 19:34:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA04059; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 20:43:14 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd004040; Wed Dec 3 20:43:10 1997 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA01191; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 20:33:52 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199712040333.UAA01191@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? To: smp@csn.net (Steve Passe) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 03:33:52 +0000 (GMT) Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, dyson@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, grog@lemis.com, FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199712040132.SAA10469@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> from "Steve Passe" at Dec 3, 97 06:32:07 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Perhaps I overstated the issue, I get up times of many weeks on my dual P6 > here that is used as a development system. Obviously many others are also > using SMP for real work. But the efficiency just isn't there yet. We > would bench very poorly against a good SMP system, and thats what needs > improvement b4 we go prime-time with SMP. Luckily we only have to compete against Solaris and UnixWare, and not good SMP systems... Dynix doesn't run on commodity hardware, and neither does Unisys's SVR4.0.2 ES/MP (which did the locking the right way instead of the Solaris/SVR4 way). And SMP SunOS 4.1.3 isn't widely sold, and where it is, it's mostly Japan and Bay Area ISP's, and then only on SPARC hardware... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.