From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 9 19:15:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA26939 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 19:15:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ryoohki.apricot.com (scanner@ryoohki.apricot.com [206.14.224.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA26923 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 19:15:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ryoohki.apricot.com (scanner@localhost) by ryoohki.apricot.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA16279 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 19:16:27 -0700 Message-Id: <199607100216.TAA16279@ryoohki.apricot.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multi-processors Reply-To: scanner@apricot.com X-URI: http://www.apricot.com/~scanner/ X-Face: 6K2.ZvQgQ.NDQLIx.1pW(xRu*">:}&PX-Ad_!!?wU7H4L"wF"0xEwYu=8Or0V+=5?-eO1XL 7-0Hom/|]B2C7Uznyol-NVnvEk:+sod^MyB4v4qVpPDemr;b@pZdRSXu.'Gm^t0?2l,j[&t.kbc[UW x6Lz^e$K$W Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 19:16:27 -0700 From: Scanner Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Gary Palmer" writes: >Probably wise. I'd love to see a MUD that could eat a P166! I know >that LambdaMOO too a SPARC down to it's knees, but that was a memory >problem (it's a memory hog) as far as I remember. That, and SPARC's >(or the ones that were used to run LambdaMOO on) aren't all that fast >by modern standards :-) However, the original LambdaMOO at Xerox PARC does run on a multiprocessor machine and gains from it. I believe the gains, though, are because the LambdaMOO server, although single-threaded, does a fork() to check point the current state of the server. The other two processors on this machine are of no real benefit for the LambdaMOO itself, but help when an admin wants to poke around on the machine. --Scanner (scanner@apricot.com)