From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 11 16:06:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A440637B401 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 16:06:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp3.server.rpi.edu (smtp3.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A643443FB1 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 16:06:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp3.server.rpi.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7BN6CkM019848; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:06:12 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200308111816.26818.eqe@cox.net> References: <200308111816.26818.eqe@cox.net> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:06:11 -0400 To: Eriq Lamar , freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Subject: Re: smp in 5.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 23:06:15 -0000 At 6:16 PM -0400 8/11/03, Eriq Lamar wrote: >Is there any advantage in 5.1 over 4.8 for two amd mp's. and >if so could someone tell what they are. I am interested in >building dual system using mp's but not sure which version >would be better. I run 5.x on a dual-Althon 2000 machine. I have no idea if that gives me much of a benefit as far as *smp* is concerned, but it certainly works fine. And there are other aspects to 5.x which are very attractive to me, such as no more MAKEDEV, and the inclusion of filesystem-snapshots. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu