On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 07:39:35AM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote: | On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 07:35, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: | > | > Why don't they just add an extra CPU to handle the GUI?? ;-) | > | | > | They did. 4.0.2 was the ES/MP (Enhanced Security/Multi Processing) | > | > I thought only NT-SMP did that. I *thought* I was being funny. :-) | SVR4.2 is a totally threaded kernel. SVR5 (UnixWare 7/OpenUNIX 8) takes | it even further. I run an OpenUnix 8+ box in addition to FreeBSD. if | any FreeBSD developers want a shell account to look around, I can | arrange it. | | [snip]
I was just making a joke about how (IIRC) Win2K's use of a second CPU in the default setting is just to offload all of the GUI handling to it, so the UI stays snappy even when the machine is heavily loaded. I would expect more advanced OS's to use a much better scheduler to make better use of the other CPU. jm -- My other computer is your Windows box. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
