Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

Danial Thom danial_thom at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 13 16:47:25 UTC 2006



--- "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC"
<chad at shire.net> wrote:

> 
> On Jul 13, 2006, at 9:22 AM, Danial Thom wrote:
> 
> > Simply enabling SMP on a single processor
> system
> > adds 20-25% overhead in freebsd 6.1. Again,
> > readily admitted/accepted by the developers.
> > There is no way to recover that in
> efficiency, at
> > least not for a long time.
> 
> So don't enable SMP on a single cpu system. 
> Easy enough to avoid.
> 
> Chad

Don't use SMP, because the overhead stays with 2
processors, with little additional benefit (as
other tests show). Easy enough to avoid.

Are you people stupid or delusional?

DT

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