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Date:      Tue, 05 Jun 2001 14:52:14 -0400
From:      "Jason Francis" <bsdsup@hotmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SMP support in FreeBSD versus Linux? (technical question no flame)
Message-ID:  <F150CPx33E1ioWwr2UA0001a210@hotmail.com>

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>Note: the following is not supposed to be flaimbait... I am trying to
>understand more about SMP in kernels in general and would like a technical
>explanation..
>
>Which is supposed to have better SMP scalability:
>the new linux kernels 2.4.x
>or
>FreeBSD 4.3?
>
>Why?

Linux will have better SMP scalability and will deliver better SMP 
performance than FreeBSD 4.x.  This is because the Linux kernel has fewer 
coarse locks than the FreeBSD kernel.

Linux doesn't scale as well as Windows 2000 because of both coarse-grained 
locks and the lack of IO completetion ports.
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