From owner-freebsd-smp Fri Oct 19 8:24:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from femail25.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail25.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.254.60.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D443C37B407 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 08:24:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx ([24.2.39.156]) by femail25.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20011019152402.FJMD4954.femail25.sdc1.sfba.home.com@laptop.baldwin.cx>; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 08:24:02 -0700 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 08:23:57 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Nathan Langford Subject: RE: recommendation Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message