From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 11 16:30:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE1E537BAB0 for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 16:30:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA01863; Thu, 11 May 2000 16:31:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200005112331.QAA01863@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Mitch Vincent" Cc: "Rick Hamell" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD SMP In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 11 May 2000 18:01:25 EDT." <002901bfbb94$744e36a0$0300000a@doot.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 16:31:02 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > While I appreciate everyone's response (and I do, very much) no one actually > answered either of my questions specifically. > > Will FreeBSD handle 4 processors? > > If so, is anyone on-list using FreeBSD with 4 (or more) processors. Yes; we have a couple of 4-way Xeon systems here. However, I would suggest that before you go blowing an enormous wad of money on hardware, you actually consider benchmarking your application and working out what you really need. I know it's trendy in the PC world to buy the biggest box you can, but this is actually pretty stupid. Just think; the money you might save could probably send you on a very nice holiday. (Or maybe your boss - can't win them all, I guess.) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message