From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 24 06:53:52 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABC3516A41F for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 06:53:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aw1@stade.co.uk) Received: from lon-mail-3.gradwell.net (lon-mail-3.gradwell.net [193.111.201.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC99443D48 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 06:53:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aw1@stade.co.uk) Received: from alsager-adsl.stade.co.uk ([81.6.222.119] helo=access2.hanley.stade.co.uk) by lon-mail-3.gradwell.net with esmtp (Gradwell gwh-smtpd 1.187) id 42e33afd.1b0f.35 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 07:53:49 +0100 (envelope-sender ) Received: from titus.hanley.stade.co.uk (titus [192.168.1.5]) by access2.hanley.stade.co.uk (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j6O6rndi099886 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 07:53:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from aw1@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk) Received: from titus.hanley.stade.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by titus.hanley.stade.co.uk (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j6O6rngg084675 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 07:53:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from aw1@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk) Received: (from aw1@localhost) by titus.hanley.stade.co.uk (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j6O6rmY2084674 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 07:53:48 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from aw1) Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 07:53:48 +0100 From: Adrian Wontroba To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050724075348.B82244@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Adrian Wontroba , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <42E151B4.7030500@bfoz.net> <42E156B2.1070004@exit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <42E156B2.1070004@exit.com>; from frank@exit.com on Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 01:27:30PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE Organization: Oh dear, I've joined one again. X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.86.1/989/Fri Jul 22 22:27:30 2005 on access2.hanley.stade.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: SMP support maturity? AMD64x2 or FX-57? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: aw1@stade.co.uk List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 06:53:52 -0000 On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 01:27:30PM -0700, Frank Mayhar wrote: > Personally I don't have the first clue what people have found to gripe > about. It has been good, it got a _lot_ better in 5.x, and it's continuing > to improve. I agree. At work I have a couple of very old 4-way servers (one with Pentium Pros, the other PIII Xeons), which run 5-STABLE happily with the stock SMP kernel configuration. Admittedly, there was a problem with SMP in 5.3-RELEASE, but that is long behind us. With 5.4 it should work almost out of the box (modulo a kernel build, and I seem to recall discussion about including SMP kernels in future releases). I can't comment about SMP on newer processors - I only get the cast offs to recycle as something useful. -- Adrian Wontroba