Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 13:17:22 +0100 From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> To: bfoz@bfoz.net, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP support maturity? AMD64x2 or FX-57? Message-ID: <E1DwIwU-0004Io-Su@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <42E151B4.7030500@bfoz.net>
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> if I should go with dual procs or just a single. The AMD64x2 is > slightly cheaper than the FX-57 so I'm leaning that way, but it > would be a rather pointless savings if SMP isn't well supported. Well, I've not triied it under amd64, but i386 SMP has been rock stable for me since I upgraded to 5.X, on both nyperthreaded machines and genuine SMP machines. Choosing one or two cores is, however, more a matter of what the box is going to be doing - if you are usually running one big compute job then a single faster core is better than two smaller ones. > So, is SMP in -STABLE ready for primetime? Can it really make use of two processors? Yes and yes. -pcf.
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