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Date:      Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:47:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com>
To:        "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?
Message-ID:  <20060713164723.72788.qmail@web33304.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <389A6BC7-4CD5-4390-8EAE-A1528C9AFA36@shire.net>

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--- "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC"
<chad@shire.net> wrote:

> 
> On Jul 13, 2006, at 9:22 AM, Danial Thom wrote:
> 
> > Simply enabling SMP on a single processor
> system
> > adds 20-25% overhead in freebsd 6.1. Again,
> > readily admitted/accepted by the developers.
> > There is no way to recover that in
> efficiency, at
> > least not for a long time.
> 
> So don't enable SMP on a single cpu system. 
> Easy enough to avoid.
> 
> Chad

Don't use SMP, because the overhead stays with 2
processors, with little additional benefit (as
other tests show). Easy enough to avoid.

Are you people stupid or delusional?

DT

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