From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 28 14:27:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25749 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 14:27:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason04.u.washington.edu (jason04.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA25743 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 14:27:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul3.u.washington.edu (root@saul3.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.1]) by jason04.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id OAA34794; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 14:27:05 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul3.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id OAA07602; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 14:27:04 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 14:26:48 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Tony Ardolino cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <363794B3.BE735F2C@netcon.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Tony Ardolino wrote: >Hello All, >I just got a request to build a dual pentium FreeBSD box. Does FreeBSD >support multiple CPU's? If so whats special about it?? >Tony Yes it does. You must use 3.0-RELEASE. What is so special about it is that the OS loses very little when scaling. You will observe about 90 percent of the performance of that the paired CPUs can produce. This means a dual CPU machine will perform 1.9 times better than a single CPU machine. This is vastly better than NT. There may have been performance improvements since the last time I looked at this. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message