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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!demon!gnome.co.uk!jacs From: jacs@gnome.co.uk (Dr Chris Stenton ) Subject: dual procesor motherboards the way forward? X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: Gnome Computers Limited Message-ID: <Cww6x9.1A0@gnome.co.uk> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 13:03:09 GMT Lines: 19 I have just had some information sent to me on a dual pentium PCI-EISA motherboard which is now availablle. The blurb says that there is some crude (my word) support under windows NT where you can select an application to run on the second processor. This made think what use this additional technology could have for intel based unix. Would it be better to just place the kernel on one processor and run all other processes on the other; or some form of dynamic load balance which will have some overhead? Anyway I am sure the FreeBSD and NetBSD teams could have some fun with this after they have tired with porting 4.4 BSD. Chris -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Chris Stenton chris@gnome.co.uk Gnome Computers Ltd Tel/Fax: 44 (0)480 406164 25A Huntingdon St, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 1BG