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Date:      Thu, 4 Feb 1999 22:17:28 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net>
To:        rcarter@pinyon.org (Russell L. Carter)
Cc:        grog@lemis.com, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Any documentation on SMP support on 3.0?
Message-ID:  <199902050317.WAA00844@y.dyson.net>
In-Reply-To: <199902030354.UAA39207@psf.Pinyon.ORG> from "Russell L. Carter" at "Feb 2, 99 08:54:08 pm"

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Russell L. Carter said:
> %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)
> 
I have some scheduler modifications that improve things alittle, and
are much more efficient than the old code.  If you all are interested,
I can post some minor changes (about 10% of my working code) that make
things work much more smoothly.

-- 
John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
dyson@iquest.net      | it makes one look stupid
jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.

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