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Date:      Mon, 23 Oct 2000 00:01:10 +0200
From:      Nimrod Mesika <nimrodm@bezeqint.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMP?
Message-ID:  <20001023000110.A908@localhost.bsd.net.il>
In-Reply-To: <5FAB4FDDCA7DD41191AA00D0B74778C821D363@axcs21.cos.agilent.com>; from jeff_pettorino@non.agilent.com on Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 03:50:10PM -0600
References:  <5FAB4FDDCA7DD41191AA00D0B74778C821D363@axcs21.cos.agilent.com>

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On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 03:50:10PM -0600, jeff_pettorino@non.agilent.com wrote:
> I am curious about FreeBSD, being a Linux user for some time now, and would
> like to try it out.  My question is, does FreeBSD support SMP, and if so, to
> what extent?  I have heard various (and probably un-informed) responses
> saying NO and YES but limited and poorly integrated....just want to know
> what I am getting into before I get started!

1. Yes. FreeBSD supports SMP (I'm running FreeBSD-4 on a dual-celeron
   machine).

2. There is some work to improve support for SMP (make the kernel
   more scalable). This is done on FreeBSD-5 (The development
   branch) and will not be ready anytime soon. Check out:

   http://people.freebsd.org/~jasone/smp/

-- 
Nimrod.
http://www.geocities.com/rodd_27


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