Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 23:56:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Christopher Nielsen <cnielsen@pobox.com> To: Vallo Kallaste <vallo@matti.ee> Cc: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0004242350090.26269-100000@hayseed.net> In-Reply-To: <20000425094709.A5210@myhakas.matti.ee>
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On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > Fair enough, but as somebody (Greg Lehey if I recall) said it was taken > about 5 years for Sun to develop fine SMP support and we can't expect to > be faster. FreeBSD is quite behind of Linux on the SMP issues currently, > Linux is somewhat behind of NT and NT, I believe, is still behind of > Solaris for SMP. Actually, I don't know, because my Solaris 8 CD is > still on the way :( Solaris is far and away better at SMP than NT. I haven't seen NT running on 64-cpu machines, and I certainly haven't seen it scaling very nearly linearly to ~20 CPUs (diminishing returns start to take effect around 22 cpus). Solaris has had this since at least 2.6 (when I last evaluated this) with 2.[78] adding greater stability and more features. -- Christopher Nielsen (enkhyl|cnielsen)@pobox.com Enkhyl on IRC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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