From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 6 17:22:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail11.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75A6A37B405 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 17:22:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 6563 invoked from network); 7 Jun 2002 00:22:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail11.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 7 Jun 2002 00:22:23 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (laptop.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.4]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g570MMF63337; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 20:22:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020607011035.B79818@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 20:22:22 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: j mckitrick Subject: Re: SMP/5.0 performance on single CPU? Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 07-Jun-2002 j mckitrick wrote: >| almost all of the kernel. However, the SMP work is still in progress and >| it will get better as time goes on. One thing to note is that in 4.x, > > Well, I'm trying to decide if I should make the leap to 5.0 when it > comes out (my early adopter side talking) or wait around for a rev or 2 > (my -stable side talking). I'm leaning toward waiting, since I depend > on my system for so much (it's my only box) and I also don't think I > have the time to learn the new details of 5.0 just yet. > > Thanks for the comments, John. > > NOTE: Please CC me, as I am not currently subscribed. Thanks. Well, if you have a test box available, your best bet is to try 5.0 out if you can and compare it to 4.x to see how they compare to each other in your specific situation. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message