Not to beat a dead horse, but ...

[Jeff Love]

On 06/09/2014 04:09 PM, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2014, andrew clarke wrote:
>
>> On Sun 2014-06-08 20:58:36 UTC+0200, Andreas Nilsson 
>> (andrnils at gmail.com) wrote:
>>
>>>> The party line seems to be, "Well, everybody knows SCHED_ULE sucks
>>>> on uniprocessors."  Hello?  Not everybody has upgraded to multiple
>>>> core or hyperthreaded processors yet.  Do we really want to write
>>>> off every uniprocessor piece of hardware out here?
>>>>
>>> Yes? Can you even buy a system today that is uniprocessor? My phone is
>>> a dual core thing, and it got written of because of its "meagre"
>>> hardware. Top of the line phones has 8 cores. So, seriously, what
>>> non-ancient system have you acquired that is uniprocessor? Please
>>> include links for available hardware for laptops, desktops or servers.
>>
>> Don't discount virtual machines, where a FreeBSD guest OS might be
>> configured to use only one of the host system's CPUs.
>
> People are also using FreeBSD on small embedded systems, both
> x86 and non-x86 based.  All the world is not a multiprocessor
> x86 system.
>
>   http://www.diamondsystems.com/products/sbcs.php
>

Those of us with some history running *BSD remember how long we waited 
for SMP in OpenBSD.

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