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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Symmetric Multi-Processing
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 14:28:20 -0700
Organization: Me
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Message-ID: <31813FF4.527A0A7@lambert.org>
References: <3180D16D.41C6@wcom.com> <4lr4q9$788@agate.berkeley.edu>
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Nick Kralevich wrote:
]
] In article <3180D16D.41C6@wcom.com>,
] Lance Heller <lance.heller@wcom.com> wrote:
] >I have an application requiring multiple cpu's and would like to use
] >FreeBSD if it supports symmetric multi-processing. Does it?
]
] FreeBSD doesn't support SMPs.
Nick doesn't support FreeBSD. 8-).
] However, if you have the source code for the application, you
] might want to try it out on Linux. The later 1.3.* kernels in
] Linux have support for SMPs.
At a level equivalent with what FreeBSD has had since version
2.0.5 (late 1994 -- more than a year before Linux had any such
project).
Starting with 2.0.5, the patches in pub on freefall.cdrom.com
will give you low grain SMP, like Linux has recently released.
] Sorry if you were only looking for a *BSD solution. Linux is
] the only commonly used free-UNIX available on PCs which has
] SMP capability.
Wrong. BSD beat Linux to SMP by more than a year.
BSD beat linux to a unified VM/buffer cache by more than a
year as well (and still counting).
Nick beat a dead Linux advocacy horse in an inappropriate
news group.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.