From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 3 11:49:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA16048 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 11:49:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fxp0.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA16040 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 11:49:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 15186 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Mar 1998 19:56:18 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-021598 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199803031927.MAA02248@usr02.primenet.com> Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 11:56:18 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, eivind@yes.no, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, (John S. Dyson) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 03-Mar-98 Terry Lambert wrote: ... > My primary concern was pushing SMP and other features out to 4.0. > One of the suggestions was pushing out to 3.1 or 3.2; I could > certainly live with that. Maybe we need to admit to ourselves, that there are certain tasks we cannot complete in reliable manner as a non-profit organization, so loosely knit. I think that an optimally designed SMP may be one such task. This aside from the fact that 95% of all FreeBSD SMP will run on a dual processor, will run single threaded applications, and the great improvement will be from 1.8 utilization factor to 1.99 - A whopping 5.5% in days where MIPS are cheaper than white bread. > It's unfortunate that most of the rational discussion occurred in private > (or semi-private) email, where it was invisible to the place where the > issue was first raised. We all behave in private quite dirrefently than in public. Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message