Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 18:47:29 -0600 (CST) From: "Jorge Mario G." <murcielako@yahoo.com> To: dkouroun@cc.uoi.gr, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Plans about GIANT-LOCK, SMP performance ... Message-ID: <20050109004729.26464.qmail@web50310.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1105191697.41dfe311aea10@webmail.uoi.gr>
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--- dkouroun@cc.uoi.gr escribió: > Dear users, > Does anybody know what are the plans, > for locking mechanism like GIANT-LOCK in > future 5.3 Releases? I have heard from many > people that this GIANT-Locking mechanism > is not the best thing to have! Some said > that it may be replaced. Some also said that > it won't. > > 1:) What are the plans about it? > > 2:) How does this affect performance? > > 3:) Which is version is best for an Opteron QUAD? > 4.10 Release or > 5.X Release ??? > > Thanks in advance! > D.K. Hi there sir FreeBSD 5.3 has nmost subsitems giant-free, so if you have a SMP box 5.3 is the way to go... you'll see a lot of performance improvements!!! Jorge Mario G. Mazo _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Información de Estados Unidos y América Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. Visítanos en http://noticias.espanol.yahoo.com
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