Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 03:33:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: smp@csn.net (Steve Passe) Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, dyson@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, grog@lemis.com, FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? Message-ID: <199712040333.UAA01191@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199712040132.SAA10469@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> from "Steve Passe" at Dec 3, 97 06:32:07 pm
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> Perhaps I overstated the issue, I get up times of many weeks on my dual P6 > here that is used as a development system. Obviously many others are also > using SMP for real work. But the efficiency just isn't there yet. We > would bench very poorly against a good SMP system, and thats what needs > improvement b4 we go prime-time with SMP. Luckily we only have to compete against Solaris and UnixWare, and not good SMP systems... Dynix doesn't run on commodity hardware, and neither does Unisys's SVR4.0.2 ES/MP (which did the locking the right way instead of the Solaris/SVR4 way). And SMP SunOS 4.1.3 isn't widely sold, and where it is, it's mostly Japan and Bay Area ISP's, and then only on SPARC hardware... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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