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From: Achim Patzner <ap@bnc.net>
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Am 07.11.2005 um 16:27 schrieb Ollivier Robert:

> According to Steven Hartland:
>> I believe previously smp support in FreeBSD has been limited
>> to smaller numbers of CPU's, we've got the opportunity to test
>> an 8 way dual core ( 16 cpu's ) this week, is 6.0 up to this?
>
> I recall seeing someone on IRC saying they had a 14 CPU machine  
> (Sparc64
> E4500) to play with so I think it should be ok.

I remember someone writing that the intermediate state of -CURRENT  
while removing the giant lock around the kernel wasn't viable with  
more than four CPUs as it would completely deadlock from time to  
time. I guess we're a bit further down the road...


Achim