From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 4 11:32:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA19754 for current-outgoing; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 11:32:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (Ilsa.StevesCafe.com [205.168.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA19738 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 11:32:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fbsd@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA14015; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 12:14:19 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199712041914.MAA14015@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 From: Steve Passe To: John Hay cc: dg@root.com, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 04 Dec 1997 09:37:57 +0200." <199712040737.JAA21468@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 12:14:18 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, > Ok, but how do we measure it, so that we can know when we get there? > (I don't think it is realistic to expect that we will half the time > that make world takes, except maybe if we throw lots of disks and > controllers at it, for instance.) And how bad do we do at the moment? > Things that are more processor intensive than syscall intensive like > rc564, do get almost full speed out of the CPUs, so if that were a > measurement we could ship now. :-) This is definately an area that could use a volunteer. We need someone to research and assemble a set of definitive tests/benchmarks for SMP that the developers could use to measure the effects of their changes. -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD