Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 02:23:35 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael Richards" <michael@fastmail.ca> To: keichii@iteration.net Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stable Support for AS1200 Message-ID: <3A80F7F7.0001FF.01462@frodo.searchcanada.ca>
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Hi.
> It is accurate info. No SMP on FreeBSD/Alpha
There is no SMP right now. Is any SMPage planned? Especially for 5.0
whenever that comes out? I hear it's supposed to be a major overhaul
of the kernel with respect to SMP.
> I do know that Linux/Alpha does not scale very well according to
> IBM Linux Technology Center internal documents that I have read.
> i.e. For a quad 21264 system, Linux/Alpha scales to 2.9-3 / 4
> CPU's (Linux gets only 3 CPU performance out of having 4
> processors. The comparison is zeroed against a Linux 2.4 UP
> kernel.)
This co-incides with information I have read when I was working for
IBM as well. I'm not interested in running Linux. There is a very
good reason I chose to run FreeBSD on our production machines.
> Yes, if you are willing to use only one processor.
I guess I will have to take another stab at installing it. Perhaps a
non-floppy type install would be better.
> In addition, Compaq released the DECUnix CC compiler for Linux
> for free. This makes all binaries compiled by the CCC compiler
> faster and smaller. If you use FreeBSD/Alpha, the Compaq CC is
> in the Ports.
Does this compiler compile to native FreeBSD or native linux?
-Michael
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