From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 21 21:53: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.kozubik.com (www.kozubik.com [198.78.70.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDAB537B41D; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 21:53:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (john@localhost) by www.kozubik.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g2M5WDa21127; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 21:32:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@kozubik.com) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 21:32:13 -0800 (PST) From: John Kozubik X-Sender: john@www To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Cc: Patrick Thomas , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: is there overhead in SMP machines related to SMP ? In-Reply-To: <20020322111437.A463@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thank you for your answers to these questions - I don't normally jump into threads like that. I am quite interested in the sparc64 FreeBSD development branch and will follow up with those folks for more information (and I have some equipment that might be helpful). ----- John Kozubik - john@kozubik.com - http://www.kozubik.com > > 1. these inefficiences aren't such that it will keep me from using 4.5 SMP > > for production environments, are they ? > > In general, no. If it didn't work, we wouldn't have released it. But > it seems to hit database systems particularly hard. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message