Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:48:58 -0800 (PST) From: John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Patrick Thomas <root@utility.clubscholarship.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is there overhead in SMP machines related to SMP ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203201847050.9183-100000@www> In-Reply-To: <20020321130710.B49090@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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> > Probably something else is going on. You can't really tell just from > vmstat. Note also that it's not very interesting to optimize the idle > state. 4.5 has a number of inefficiencies in SMP; we're addressing > some of them in 5.0. > thanks. if you don't mind I have some miscellaneous questions: 1. these inefficiences aren't such that it will keep me from using 4.5 SMP for production environments, are they ? 2. is 5.0 SMP slated to do 8 processors (or more?) 3. do you know how many processors sparc64 FreeBSD SMP supports ? Or will it always be the same number of procs that x86 supports ? thanks! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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