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Date:      Fri, 19 Oct 2001 08:23:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Nathan Langford <nathanl@eden.rutgers.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-smp@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: recommendation
Message-ID:  <XFMail.011019082357.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0110182258460.6858-100000@er4.rutgers.edu>

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On 19-Oct-01 Nathan Langford wrote:
> I'm getting a hand-me-down pentiumII dual processor server and I'm curious
> as to the state of SMP in freebsd stable and current in terms of
> useability, stability...  Can anyone comment?

Works great for the most part.  Kernel-intensive applications won't scale as
well as apps that depend more on userland CPU, but that is the only real
downside.

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