From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Feb 2 20:06:26 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA07343 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 20:06:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from psf.Pinyon.ORG (ppp1-217.presc.dialup.futureone.com [209.250.11.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA07334 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 20:06:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rcarter@psf.Pinyon.ORG) Received: from psf.Pinyon.ORG (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by psf.Pinyon.ORG (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA39207; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 20:54:08 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from rcarter@psf.Pinyon.ORG) Message-Id: <199902030354.UAA39207@psf.Pinyon.ORG> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Greg Lehey cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any documentation on SMP support on 3.0? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 02 Feb 1999 15:35:23 +1030." <19990202153522.Q76680@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 20:54:08 -0700 From: "Russell L. Carter" Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org %I'm currently putting together an upgrade for The Complete FreeBSD %describing the changes in 3.0. I have almost nothing on SMP. As I %understand it, there isn't much to say, but if anybody could point me %to some text or tell me of possible gotchas, I'd be grateful. Not much to say? :) Well, SMP works very well for parallel compiles, at least. There is a lot of uncertainty now with the scheduler, for real-time (posix4) and for threads. But I bought a box (for work) dedicated to compiles, and am very happy with it. (2xPII-350,512MB PC100 DIMMS,TYAN 1836SDLUAN, 4.0-current) Russell %Please copy me personally on your replies; I don't think I'm %subscribed to this list. % %Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message