FreeBSD and SMP support

[Micheal Patterson]

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From: <jaco2001uk at ntlworld.com>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 7:28 PM
Subject: FreeBSD and SMP support


> Hi
>
> I'm after some general information on SMP support on FreeBSD.
>
> I've been running FreeBSD 5.1 for a couple of months as a Web server on a
single CPU system and have had no problems - in fact it's performed
excellent. I've now got a "new" PC that has dual PII 300 CPU's.
>
> I have read a lot of articles regarding the supposed poor support of SMP
in Pre 5 releases but that now apparently is starting to change in 5.X
releases.
>
> I've also read articles relating to performance issues with MySQL on
FreeBSD. Although apparently performance has drastically improved in MySQL 4
series releases though - if compile with Linux Threads Support (?)
>
> My questions really are how well does FreeBSD 5.X or 4.X running Apache
and MySQL perform with 2 CPU's and does Linux perform better?
>
> Many thanks
>
> David
>
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I can't speak for anyone else but myself, but I'm currently running
Sendmail, Apache, Mailman, Qpopper, Mysql, and Samba on a dual 800mhz system
and it's doing just fine on 4.8 and processing approx 25k messages every 24
hours including AV scanning. I've yet to see it fall below 60% idle under
heavy traffic. It normally sits at 86 - 99% idle. So, for me, the smp works
rather well.

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Micheal Patterson
Network Administration
Cancer Care Network