From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 23 12:19:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A87A14F57 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 12:19:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3/Kp) with ESMTP id UAA53785; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 20:18:41 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <37C19E8F.D771F76D@tdx.co.uk> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 20:18:39 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd@lucifer.ru.ac.za Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linear Speedup for NT (SMP) ? References: <19990823202723.A74208@lucifer.ru.ac.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Siviwe Kwatsha wrote: > > Hello, > > Someone just told me that NT has linear speedup on SMP. > > While I think it's a ridiculous claim that software can fix architectural > problems, I'm keen to move to NT if it _does_ gives me linear support. > > Hopefully someone will tell me it's all Microsoft false-advertising bullshit > again. > > Eagerly awaiting that response :) Coming from someone sitting infront of an SMP dual P2-450, it may on paper perhaps - but my real life experience certainly doesn't bear this out... This isn't really a question for a FreeBSD forum now is it anyway? - Besides, our FreeBSD servers run rings around our NT servers anyday - that's why they outnumber them 12:1 :-) [In our experience, etc. + normal anti-flame blurb etc. :)] -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message