From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Sep 26 13:35:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-smp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA00957 for smp-outgoing; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 13:35:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po2.glue.umd.edu (po2.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.45]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA00918 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 13:35:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from skipper.eng.umd.edu (skipper.eng.umd.edu [129.2.103.24]) by po2.glue.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA23199; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 16:35:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by skipper.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA10963; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 16:35:49 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: skipper.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 16:35:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@skipper.eng.umd.edu To: Barney Wolff cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-SMP and Pentium Pro (was -> Re: QuadPro Motherboard) In-Reply-To: <324a06bf0.2d93@databus.databus.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Barney Wolff wrote: > > Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 21:22:56 -0400 (EDT) > > From: Chuck Robey > > > > Erich, the cost of that damn dual PPro board is so high (mostly the cost > > the the 2 Ppro's) that I have to take it seriously. That's a major > > portion of the reason that I've been foot dragging on doing it, because > > I'm worried about getting a $2k motherboard/doorstop. > > Well, it's not THAT bad. I can report one experimental point: I have > installed and run 2.1.5-release (non-smp) on a Supermicro P6DNE with > 2 cpus installed. So at most you're out the price of 1 P6, which can > always be used in a second machine. It is that bad if the goal is to run smp, and it fails because of something uncorrectable. Unless you happen to have a seond machine around that happens to have a space slot for a PPro (unlikely). > > Barney Wolff > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------