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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!palowoda From: palowoda@netcom.com (Bob Palowoda) Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison) Message-ID: <palowodaDLLAGn.A24@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <bryDL5wtq.4Fo@netcom.com> <4dc00a$j2f@park.uvsc.edu> <bryDL7E84.LG3@netcom.com> <4dgjg8$78i@nntpb.cb.att.com> <4dqsr1$351@diablo.cet.co.jp> <4duvh2$sg6@telepath.com> Distribution: inet Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 15:45:59 GMT Lines: 20 Sender: palowoda@netcom21.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2100 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2252 comp.unix.solaris:58118 Ender Wiggin (mwwheatl@telepath.com) wrote: : In article <bryDL7E84.LG3@netcom.com>, Bryan Althaus <bry@netcom.com> wrote: : >I always : >here people say "Other than SMP .." as if it's trivial to have an OS : >support SMP. If it was so easy Linux and *BSD would have it. : Current 1.3.x kernels of Linux *do* support SMP. :-) The word "support" has very little meaning in the above statements. Discribe how well these 1.3.x kernels with SMP run. How many of the Linux drivers are threaded? What is the granularity of kernel locking? ---Bob -- +--------------------------------------------------------+ | palowoda@fiver.sns.com http://fiver.sns.com/~palowoda/ | | Solaris x86 Corner http://fiver.sns.com/ | +--------------------------------------------------------+