Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 09:01:04 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@tcbug.org> To: Mark Wolfskehl <mark.wolfskehl@verizon.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD newbie general and SMP questions for i386] Message-ID: <20031218090103.GE7146@ns1.tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <3FE105FB.3060603@verizon.net> References: <3FE105FB.3060603@verizon.net>
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On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:42:19PM -0800, Mark Wolfskehl wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a FreeBSD newbie. I'm considering installing either FreeBSD i386 or > Linux on a 2 AMD Athelon CPU machine. The motherboard is an ASUS > A7M266-D, and the machine has 2GB memory installed. I'm working on > trying to answer some key questions before making a final decision which > OS to install (right now the other alternative is SuSe Linux), but > perhaps if anyone has some quick answers that would be a help: > > 1. How stable is SMP support in 5.1, especially compared to the > stability of single CPU FreeBSD and Linux in general? I'm running FreeBSD 5.1 on a dual p-pro system, 4.9 on a dual AMD system, and until recently I was running Debian Linux on a dual p3...I can't say that any of them were unstable. > > 2. In general, how could I characterize the relative performance of > FreeBSD and Linux under an SMP kernel and/.or single processors? > > 3. I'm looking into whether my motherboard conforms to the FreeBSD > requirements. I don't know if the 'Intel MP' means you have to have > genuine Intel processors, in particular. If anyone can get a quick > answer to this, that would be critical, of course. ASUS's website is > www.asus.com, and you can just do a search for the motherboard model. > They have all the specs and the users manual in pdf online. Thanks in > advance. I'm running a dual socket A Gigabyte motherboard, and the only issue that I've had with it is that the system hangs if I try to use the nvidia drivers for X. I've heard from someone with a Tyan Tiger board using the same chipset (MPX) that they've had the same problem. Other than that I've had no issues at all. Josh Paetzel
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