From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Sep 21 15:52:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from pike.sover.net (pike.sover.net [209.198.87.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA52C1545D for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 15:52:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adams@digitalspark.net) Received: from nightfall.digitalspark.net (arc0a326.bf.sover.net [209.198.83.234]) by pike.sover.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA28775; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 18:52:03 -0400 (EDT) Comments: SoVerNet Verification (on pike.sover.net) nightfall.digitalspark.net from arc0a326.bf.sover.net [209.198.83.234] 209.198.83.234 Tue, 21 Sep 1999 18:52:03 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 18:55:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Adam Strohl To: Marc Schneiders Cc: Mats Lofkvist , somsky@annwn.phys.washington.edu, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Examples of FreeBSD SMP success? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Marc Schneiders wrote: > How on earth do you do it? Softupdates?? My UniProcessor Celeron366 @ 458 > takes 15 hours (4.0 current of 13 September). I do use it for mail and the > like, but no CPU intensive stuff. > I have also run FreeBSD (both 3.1 and 4.0) on a Dual PPro 200 @ 233. One > Seti file was only slightly quicker than letting the box do two at a time. > Maybe 5 % or so. Of course two CPU's need twice the amount of RAM, I > would say. But I hardly expect anyone running an SMP box with less than 64 > MB. So that cannot be the issue, probably. Hmmm, Asus P2B-D motherboard, with 128MB of RAM, IDE disks. seti is VERY light on disk. Also, I meant to say 15 hours, not 5. However, it took 15 hours if 1 block was processing, or 15 hours if there were two. That was my point. - ----( Adam Strohl )------------------------------------------------ - - UNIX Operations/Systems http://www.digitalspark.net - - adams (at) digitalspark.net xxx.xxx.xxxx xxxxx - - ----------------------------------------( DigitalSpark.NET )------- - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message