Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:34:09 -0800 From: Avleen Vig <lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My wish list for 6.1 Message-ID: <20051217063409.GB19094@silverwraith.com> In-Reply-To: <20051216104022.A20877@cons.org> References: <43A26FFB.9080405@samsco.org> <20051216104022.A20877@cons.org>
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On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 10:40:22AM -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > 2. SMP kernels for install. Right now we only install a UP kernel, for > > performance reasons. We should be able to package both a UP and SMP > > kernel into the release bits, and have sysinstall install both. It > > should also select the correct one for the target system and make that > > the default on boot. > > If people are concerned about performance, I benchmarked a 6-beta > kernel SMP versus UP on a socket 939 Opteron. If those results are accurate, there's no real reason not to just use an SMP kernel on default install?home | help
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