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Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 11:34:46 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To: Matt Bedynek <mbedynek@insync.net>
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Subject: Re: 5.0current
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In the last episode (May 27), Matt Bedynek said:
> is it possible to use the 5.0-current kernel with releases such as
> 4.3? I would like to take advantage of the SMP optimizations that are
> in 5.0current.

-current is too unstable at the moment to try and use on a production
system, and I don't think SMP is any faster than 4.* right now, either. 
Most of the kernel still requires the Giant lock.

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