From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 6 17:35:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1067037B406; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 17:35:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #7) id 17G7j8-0006kX-00; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 01:35:38 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g570ZcB80110; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 01:35:38 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 01:35:38 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Mike Silbersack Cc: John Baldwin , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP/5.0 performance on single CPU? Message-ID: <20020607013538.C79818@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20020607011035.B79818@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020606191745.V3036-100000@patrocles.silby.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20020606191745.V3036-100000@patrocles.silby.com>; from silby@silby.com on Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 07:23:29PM -0500 X-Scanner: exiscan *17G7j8-0006kX-00*ymHO7c538hw* (Manchester Computing, University of Manchester) 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 | If none of the features are that useful to you, then by all means stick | with 4.7 or whatever we're up to when 5.0-release comes out. I'm sure Well, I definitely plan to move to 5.x. The question is when. When it will be ready for general use, and when I will be able to learn all the new features I need to know about to use it. | will look like come November. If you'd asked me back in January, I would | have had a very pessimistic outlook. However, much work has been done in | the last two months; if work continues at this rate, 5.0 will have | significant advantages for many people. Well that's really good to hear. I had my concerns a year ago as well, especially when the 5.0 release was delayed a year, and more recently when the economy went south. Not to mention the fact that MS has continued its stranglehold on the industry and OSS hasn't led to the 'revolution' everyone was clamoring for. jm -- There are only 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message