From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 25 1:28:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from solaris.matti.ee (solaris.matti.ee [194.126.98.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B982437B92A for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 01:28:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vallo@matti.ee) Received: from myhakas.matti.ee (myhakas.matti.ee [194.126.114.87]) by solaris.matti.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B2C32CE78; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 10:28:09 +0200 (EET) Received: by myhakas.matti.ee (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A30631C574E; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 10:28:11 +0200 (EET) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 10:28:11 +0200 From: Vallo Kallaste To: Christopher Nielsen Cc: "Brandon D. Valentine" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility Message-ID: <20000425102811.A5689@myhakas.matti.ee> Reply-To: vallo@matti.ee References: <20000425094709.A5210@myhakas.matti.ee> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from cnielsen@pobox.com on Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 11:56:50PM -0700 Organization: =?UTF-8?Q?AS_Matti_B=C3=BCrootehnika?= Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 11:56:50PM -0700, Christopher Nielsen wrote: > Solaris is far and away better at SMP than NT. I haven't seen NT running > on 64-cpu machines, and I certainly haven't seen it scaling very nearly > linearly to ~20 CPUs (diminishing returns start to take effect around 22 > cpus). Solaris has had this since at least 2.6 (when I last evaluated > this) with 2.[78] adding greater stability and more features. You are speaking about SPARC arhitecture, aren't you? Actually we can't compare IA32 and 64-bit SPARC I think and after all I'm absolutely wrong person to discuss about SPARC so I shut up now :-) -- Vallo Kallaste vallo@matti.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message