From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Sep 16 17:17:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from annwn.phys.washington.edu (annwn.phys.washington.edu [128.95.93.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5209F15207 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 17:17:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from somsky@annwn.phys.washington.edu) Received: (from somsky@localhost) by annwn.phys.washington.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA19987; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 17:17:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from somsky) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 17:17:51 -0700 From: "William R. Somsky" To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Examples of FreeBSD SMP success? Message-ID: <19990916171751.A19950@annwn.phys.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.7i Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org We're considering getting several Intel-based machines here in the UW Physics department for use as desktop work- and computation- stations, and the question has come up whether we would gain much by getting dual-CPU (say dual 500 MHZ Pentium-III) as opposed to single-CPU systems. The anticipated use where dual-CPUs could help us would probably be users either running a computation-intensive job (eg, Mathematica), while simultaneously doing desktop editing/browsing/mailing/TeXing/etc, or running two computation- intensive jobs. (We don't expect that Mathematica or any user job will be multi threaded.) What I've been asked to find out what the state of FreeBSD SMP support is, and if anyone has any real-world examples of using dual-CPUs under FreeBSD that might be similar to this sort of situation and what the results have been. Being as that I've not tried multi-processing under FreeBSD yet, does anybody have any input I can give to my users? ________________________________________________________________________ Dr. William R. Somsky, Unix Mgr somsky@phys.washington.edu Department of Physics, Box 351560 B432 Physics-Astro Bldg Univ. of Washington, Seattle WA 98195-1560 206/616-2954 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message