Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 14:55:38 -0500 From: "Fafa Hafiz Krantz" <fteg@london.com> To: questions@freebsd.org, advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Explaining FreeBSD features Message-ID: <20050620195539.1B3E54C35B@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com>
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Hello. Thank you all for everything so far. But I am not looking for comparisons. I am looking for stuff that has been written so that people can understand. Let's say this: Multi-threaded SMP architecture capable of executing the kernel in parallel= on multiple processors, and with kernel preemption, allowing high priority= kernel tasks to preempt other kernel activity, reducing latency. This incl= udes a multi-threaded network stack and a multi-threaded virtual memory sub= system. With FreeBSD 6.x, support for a fully parallel VFS allows the UFS f= ile system to run on multiple processors simultaneously, permitting load sh= aring of CPU-intensive I/O optimization. In the real world, that ought to sound more like: FreeBSD includes support for symmetric multiprocessing and multithreading. = This makes the kernel lock down levels of interfaces and buffers, minimizin= g the chance of threads on different processors blocking each other, to giv= e maximum performance on multiprocessor systems. Thanks. -- Fafa Hafiz Krantz Research Designer @ http://www.home.no/barbershop Enlightened @ http://www.home.no/barbershop/smart/sharon.pdf --=20 ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm
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