strace broken in 7.0?

[Timo Schoeler]

Thus Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> spake on Fri, 11 Jan 2008
18:53:17 +0100 (CET):

> Timo Schoeler wrote:
>  > Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
>  > > Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>  > > > By the way, as far as I know, FreeBSD already runs on machines
>  > > > with a non-power-of-two number of cores:
>  > > 
>  > >   - I've still got a 6-way PPro motherboard in the closet
>  > > upstairs (and a number of such ran FreeBSD way back then last
>  > > millennium when they were impressively powerful systems   :)
>  > 
>  > Thanks for saving my time. It was built by a company that no longer
>  > exists, IIRC, but I don't remember its name.
> 
> It's the ALR Revolution 6x6 board.  It's a six-way SMP
> socket-8 board that required a hell of a power supply
> and was a good replacement for a radiator.  I remember
> several people running FreeBSD on it in the previous
> century.  Nowadays a single-core processor is probably
> much faster and consumes a fraction of the power.
> 
> Best regards
>    Oliver

We had one machine of this type at the ISP I worked for in the 90ies.
Don't remember the OS that ran on it, though. Nice machine, for x86 ;)