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Date:      Thu, 9 Mar 2000 21:18:41 -0500 (EST)
From:      Mikhail Teterin <mi@video-collage.com>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Cc:        alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SMP on Alpha?
Message-ID:  <200003100218.VAA23577@dufus.video-collage.com>
In-Reply-To: <00Mar10.124510est.115253@border.alcanet.com.au> from Peter Jeremy at "Mar 10, 2000 12:45:10 pm"

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> >Will the -current  version of FreeBSD run on a  multi-CPU axp machine
> >and use all of the CPUs?
>
> Not yet, but Real Soon Now.

Mmm, next week?
 
> > Would that  be a reliable box  (assuming the admin
> >sometimes knows  what he  is doing)?
> 
> -current comes  with all the  usual `not for production  use' caveats,

-current on a dual i386 box performs quite nicely for us right now.

> and (without any slur on Doug  Rabson, who's doing the work), you'd be
> very game taking FreeBSD's first cut  at Alpha/SMP and putting it into
> production.

So,  unless there  will be  some Alpha-specific  quirks, we  are looking
forward to  it! Named, Apache, MySQL,  TCL will be the  primary packages
for it...

	-mi


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