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Date:      Tue, 10 Jun 2014 05:22:17 +1000
From:      andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>
To:        Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com>
Cc:        George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com>, FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Not to beat a dead horse, but ...
Message-ID:  <20140609192217.GA69813@ozzmosis.com>
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On Sun 2014-06-08 20:58:36 UTC+0200, Andreas Nilsson (andrnils@gmail.com) wrote:

> > The party line seems to be, "Well, everybody knows SCHED_ULE sucks
> > on uniprocessors."  Hello?  Not everybody has upgraded to multiple
> > core or hyperthreaded processors yet.  Do we really want to write
> > off every uniprocessor piece of hardware out here?
> >
> Yes? Can you even buy a system today that is uniprocessor? My phone is
> a dual core thing, and it got written of because of its "meagre"
> hardware. Top of the line phones has 8 cores. So, seriously, what
> non-ancient system have you acquired that is uniprocessor? Please
> include links for available hardware for laptops, desktops or servers.

Don't discount virtual machines, where a FreeBSD guest OS might be
configured to use only one of the host system's CPUs.



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