My wish list for 6.1

Avleen Vig lists-freebsd at silverwraith.com
Fri Dec 16 22:34:10 PST 2005


On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 10:40:22AM -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote:
> > 2.  SMP kernels for install.  Right now we only install a UP kernel, for
> > performance reasons.  We should be able to package both a UP and SMP
> > kernel into the release bits, and have sysinstall install both.  It 
> > should also select the correct one for the target system and make that
> > the default on boot.
> 
> If people are concerned about performance, I benchmarked a 6-beta
> kernel SMP versus UP on a socket 939 Opteron.

If those results are accurate, there's no real reason not to just use an
SMP kernel on default install?


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