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
Thanks for all of the replies. It sounds like SMP is doing better than I thought so I've decided to go with the dual core option.
Thanks for the help
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if I should go with dual procs or just a single. The AMD64x2 is
slightly cheaper than the FX-57 so I'm leaning that way, but it
would be a rather pointless savings if SMP isn't well supported.
Well, I've not triied it under amd64, but i386 SMP has been rock stable
for me since I upgraded to
SMP support in FreeBSD seems to be a perpetually favorite feature to gripe about, but every release seems to say that its getting better. I'm about to build a new server and am trying to determine if I should go with dual procs or just a single. The AMD64x2 is slightly cheaper than the FX-57 so
Brandon Fosdick wrote:
SMP support in FreeBSD seems to be a perpetually favorite feature to
gripe about, but every release seems to say that its getting better. I'm
about to build a new server and am trying to determine if I should go
with dual procs or just a single. The AMD64x2 is slightly
On Friday 22 July 2005 04:06 pm, Brandon Fosdick wrote:
SMP support in FreeBSD seems to be a perpetually favorite feature
to gripe about, but every release seems to say that its getting
better. I'm about to build a new server and am trying to determine
if I should go with dual procs or just a
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 01:27:30PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Frank Mayhar, and lo! it spake thus:
Sigh. You know, I've been running with two processors since 4.1 or
thereabouts. Sure, the BGL scheme is inefficient as far as the
kernel itself is concerned, but for compute-bound user
At 04:27 PM 7/22/2005, Frank Mayhar wrote:
Brandon Fosdick wrote:
SMP support in FreeBSD seems to be a perpetually favorite feature
to gripe about, but every release seems to say that its getting
better. I'm about to build a new server and am trying to determine
if I should go with dual procs
