From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 25 19:42:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA17159 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 19:42:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA17087 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 19:42:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA28459; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 19:42:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 19:42:23 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Frank Kelly cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Duakl processor motherboards... In-Reply-To: <34F31B68.7AC5@sable.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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message