From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Mar 9 18:18:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from xxx.video-collage.com (xxx.video-collage.com [209.122.149.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C10337B8F7 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 18:18:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mi@video-collage.com) X-Relay-IP: ‚  Received: from dufus.video-collage.com (dufus [10.222.222.77]) by xxx.video-collage.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA11510; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 21:18:42 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Teterin Received: (from mi@localhost) by dufus.video-collage.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA23577; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 21:18:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mi@xxx) Message-Id: <200003100218.VAA23577@dufus.video-collage.com> Subject: Re: SMP on Alpha? In-Reply-To: <00Mar10.124510est.115253@border.alcanet.com.au> from Peter Jeremy at "Mar 10, 2000 12:45:10 pm" To: Peter Jeremy Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 21:18:41 -0500 (EST) Cc: alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message