From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 9 13:43:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA05601 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 13:43:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tombstone.sunrem.com (tombstone.sunrem.com [206.81.134.54]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA05595; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 13:43:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from brandon@localhost) by tombstone.sunrem.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA05115; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 14:43:19 -0600 Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 14:43:18 -0600 (MDT) From: Brandon Gillespie To: Gary Palmer cc: Russell Epstein , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multi-processors In-Reply-To: <28696.836941788@palmer.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 9 Jul 1996, Gary Palmer wrote: > [CC:'d back to questions as I dunno the answer to the second part ] > > Russell Epstein wrote in message ID > <199607091754.MAA03074@shadowlands.com>: > > I know mudos does not support multi-processors. I mainly wanted it > > for use of running other apps like emacs and compiling drivers > > etc... I also use the machine for a few other purposes. But I > > think we are just going to buy a P-166 and be done with it. > > Probably wise. I'd love to see a MUD that could eat a P166! I know > that LambdaMOO too a SPARC down to it's knees, but that was a memory > problem (it's a memory hog) as far as I remember. That, and SPARC's > (or the ones that were used to run LambdaMOO on) aren't all that fast > by modern standards :-) I plan on integrating OS-level threads into Cold, which is a derivative of LambdaMOO and CoolMUD (amoung others), once I finish up a few other tasks. > > Ohh yea one more question. I noticed you have support for the > > Cyrinx chips. I was looking at the Cyrinx 166 and it is 100 bucks > > cheaper than the P-166. Have you seen any problems with the Cyrinx > > chips? > > Dunno. Other readers of -questions care to comment? The primary Cold server runs on a Cyrix P150+, the only problem I have is that the kernel finds it as a 486 chip, so the 586 and 686 instruction set it has is being ignored. Other than that, I have never had problems (other than an overheating problem, but that was due to the case it was put into). -Brandon Gillespie-