Hi All, I'm sorry to pick such an old topic again.
--- On Wed, 5/15/13, David Ruggiero <[email protected]> wrote: > A few months ago I asked the question here about what the > pros and > cons would be of running the OpenBSD SMP kernel (bsd.mp) on > the > net6501, versus the standard uniprocessor kernel - seeing > that the > E6XX series has HyperTransport and therefore something > approximating > multiple cores. There wasn't, as I recall, any consensus, or > even much > information at all (*). So from this discussion, as far as I > can tell, > I have a choice of _four_ different OpenBSD kernels that > could > legitimately be booted on my net6501 and would probably > run: > > 32-bit i386 uniprocessor > 32-bit i386 SMP > 64-bit amd64 uniprocessor > 64-bit amd64 SMP > > I'm sure a similar list of possible alternatives exists for > other BSD > variants and for Linux. > > A different company than Soekris might do some quick > testing, or at > least provide some pithy engineering insight and give its > customers a > quick rundown from their point of view on the advantages > and > disadvantages of 32 vs 64bit and non-smp vs smp - whether in > general, > or for specific common application needs. But at the risk of > being > flamed here, I'll say that I'm not holding my breath for > any > information like that from the company anytime soon... > > If anyone has data points around these questions from actual > personal > experience and actual real-world testing, like Kyle's, I'm > sure many > would be grateful for that. I just received my 6501 and i don't have any disks yet. However, i'm able to boot into 32bit 64bit linux kernels and i'm able to enable/disable SMP. The kernel version will be 2.6.37 with some Gentoo patches. Since i can't yet use it for what i planned to do with it i'm happy to do some performance testing. Anything that doesn't take too much disk space or requires installation of additional packages is possible. Just keep in mind that whatever i boot, userspace will always be 32bit. If it's really nescessary i can see if i can change that but i rather not. Any test suggestions ? Best regards, Wesley _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
