Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 16:34:56 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, scottl@FreeBSD.org, smp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: P5 vs. SMP, part 2 Message-ID: <3C3A3EB0.548F0F59@mindspring.com> References: <20020107120621.GA23585@darkstar.doublethink.cx> <20020107235035.95C263808@overcee.netplex.com.au> <20020108000825.GA60374@peitho.fxp.org>
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Chris Faulhaber wrote: > I wonder how many dual P5's are still being used :/ There's at least you, Gunnar, Me, and (if he finds the parts), Peter. As a scratch SMP box, there's very little that beats a dual P5-90. It also keeps you honest on slowdown problems, which you might not see, if you had 2 processors each going 10-20 times the clock rate in question. I also like it because the IPIs and synchornization are relatively costly, which is a good approximation to a faster machine with many more CPUs. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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