From owner-freebsd-net Sat Jan 8 9:55:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from cichlids.com (as2-030.rp-plus.de [149.221.236.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4BC014DDF for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 09:55:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@cichlids.com) Received: from cichlids.cichlids.com (cichlids.cichlids.com [192.168.0.10]) by cichlids.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78E5BAB92; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 18:31:37 +0100 (CET) Received: (from alex@localhost) by cichlids.cichlids.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA14010; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 18:31:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from alex) Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 18:31:30 +0100 From: Alexander Langer To: Mohit Aron Cc: weyrich@goodnet.com, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: performance of FreeBSD-current as SMP Message-ID: <20000108183130.A13891@cichlids.cichlids.com> References: <20000108134110.B442@cichlids.cichlids.com> <200001081602.KAA11960@cs.rice.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200001081602.KAA11960@cs.rice.edu>; from aron@cs.rice.edu on Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 10:02:25AM -0600 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 28 CA 4C 46 5B D3 A8 A8 E3 BA F3 4E 60 7D 7F X-Verwirrung: Dieser Header dient der allgemeinen Verwirrung. Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thus spake Mohit Aron (aron@cs.rice.edu): > Good Lord! This is the second time now. I even SAID in my last two mails that > there is only ONE processor. Theortically then, FreeBSD configured with/without > SMP support shouldn't make any difference. Yes, I know. I just wanted to mention it. Well, it's known that SMP produces this overhead. The same is for NT and Linux, if you enable SMP and use only 1 prozessor. It's the protocol-overhead or other overhead or such (don't know the internals) Alex -- I doubt, therefore I might be. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message