From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 28 02:24:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA20408 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 02:24:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.local.sunyit.edu (A-V25.rh.sunyit.edu [150.156.211.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA20401 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 02:24:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (perlsta@localhost) by server.local.sunyit.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA15748 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 05:29:23 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: server.local.sunyit.edu: perlsta owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 05:29:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: perlsta@server.local.sunyit.edu To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: SMP? In-Reply-To: <33DC5875.167EB0E7@dorotech.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a couple of questions about SMP, what boards do i have to watch out for, not working? will the SMP kernel work with cyrix/AMD chips? I was recently considering, just to experiment (it would kill my budget though) to buy my roomate's P150 chip (real bargain) then buy a dual pentium mb plus another P150. The whole thing will cost me almost 400$, is it worth it? The thing is I just read that dual pentiums are nothing compared to dual pentium pros, is this true (especially running at 150mhz) What kind of performance increase could i expect over a single P150? Last general question, is the SMP kernel stable as of now and are the same drivers and ports available for it? Thanks in advance, Alfred perlsta@sunyit.edu