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Date:      Wed, 25 Feb 1998 19:42:23 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Frank Kelly <fkelly@sable.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Duakl processor motherboards...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980225194137.28338T-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <34F31B68.7AC5@sable.com>

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On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Frank Kelly wrote:

> A quick question; what is the status of SMP in the current "stable"
> release of FreeBSD?

Nonexistent; SMP is only in -CURRENT.

>  I'm sitting on a Dual Pentium board, and I'm 'itching' to put FBSD on
> it ;-0...it will be a "production" server, and I just wasn't able to get
> enough detail from the SMP pages to see if it's worth the risk...in fact
> the SMP pages look a bit "abandoned"...I appreciate any insight you can
> provide, and thank you

SMP has been pretty well tested, but I would be cautious running it
production.  I'd be ready to swap in a uniprocessor backup in case the
first one croaked on an obscure bug.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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