Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:36:10 -0700 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: Billy Newsom <smartweb@leadhill.net> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4 SMP kernels now available via FreeBSD Update Message-ID: <42B0C97A.5080004@wadham.ox.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <42B095F4.1050100@leadhill.net> References: <42B06C2E.9030704@wadham.ox.ac.uk> <42B095F4.1050100@leadhill.net>
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Billy Newsom wrote: > Colin Percival wrote: >> It sounds like the SMP kernel I provided for FreeBSD 5.3 was quite >> popular [...] > > I'm curious how popular. Would you like to report some statistics here > on the list? As in, how many SMP downloads did you get, say, in > comparison to the GENERIC? Ok, I've gone through my log files, and it looks like the number of systems downloading SMP kernels is around 4% - 6% of the number of systems downloading GENERIC kernels. That said, I don't think this should be used as a measure of how popular SMP is on FreeBSD systems overall, since people with high-end SMP systems are more likely than average to build their own kernels rather than using those which I distribute and the availability of SMP kernels via FreeBSD Update wasn't very widely advertised. It is probably safe to conclude that _at least_ 5% of FreeBSD systems have more than one processor, but I suspect that the actual value is considerably higher than that. Colin Percival
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