From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 22 15: 9:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bezeqint.net (mail-a.bezeqint.net [192.115.106.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1ACB37B479 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 15:09:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsd.net.il (bzq-168-135.bezeqint.net) by mail.bezeqint.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with ESMTP id <0G2U0047IQOG1S@mail.bezeqint.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 00:05:05 +0200 (IST) Received: (from nimrodm@localhost) by bsd.net.il (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e9MM1At00964 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 00:01:10 +0200 (IST envelope-from nimrodm) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 00:01:10 +0200 From: Nimrod Mesika Subject: Re: SMP? In-reply-to: <5FAB4FDDCA7DD41191AA00D0B74778C821D363@axcs21.cos.agilent.com>; from jeff_pettorino@non.agilent.com on Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 03:50:10PM -0600 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: nimrodm@email.com Message-id: <20001023000110.A908@localhost.bsd.net.il> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i References: <5FAB4FDDCA7DD41191AA00D0B74778C821D363@axcs21.cos.agilent.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 03:50:10PM -0600, jeff_pettorino@non.agilent.com wrote: > I am curious about FreeBSD, being a Linux user for some time now, and would > like to try it out. My question is, does FreeBSD support SMP, and if so, to > what extent? I have heard various (and probably un-informed) responses > saying NO and YES but limited and poorly integrated....just want to know > what I am getting into before I get started! 1. Yes. FreeBSD supports SMP (I'm running FreeBSD-4 on a dual-celeron machine). 2. There is some work to improve support for SMP (make the kernel more scalable). This is done on FreeBSD-5 (The development branch) and will not be ready anytime soon. Check out: http://people.freebsd.org/~jasone/smp/ -- Nimrod. http://www.geocities.com/rodd_27 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message