From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Feb 6 23:24: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.interchange.ca (ns.interchange.ca [216.126.79.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C04C937B4EC for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 23:23:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.interchange.ca (Fastmailer, from userid 555) id 96F8D228D; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 02:23:35 -0500 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <3A80F7F7.0001FF.01462@frodo.searchcanada.ca> Content-Type: Multipart/Mixed; boundary="------------Boundary-00=_BVLDABRTZ6EOO49D7TH0" To: keichii@iteration.net Subject: Re: Stable Support for AS1200 Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Michael Richards" X-Fastmail-IP: 24.156.176.65 Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 02:23:35 -0500 (EST) Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --------------Boundary-00=_BVLDABRTZ6EOO49D7TH0 Content-Type: Text/Plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 _________________________________________________________________ http://fastmail.ca/ - Fast Free Web Email for Canadians --------------Boundary-00=_BVLDABRTZ6EOO49D7TH0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message