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

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

On Jul 13, 2006, at 10:47 AM, Danial Thom wrote:

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> --- "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC"
> <chad at shire.net> wrote:
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>> On Jul 13, 2006, at 9:22 AM, Danial Thom wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> So don't enable SMP on a single cpu system.
>> Easy enough to avoid.
>>
>> Chad
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> Don't use SMP, because the overhead stays with 2
> processors, with little additional benefit (as
> other tests show). Easy enough to avoid.
>

SMP has overhead but FreeBSD on 2 processors can do more work than  
FreeBSD on the same HW with just 1 processor.  That is a fact.

> Are you people stupid or delusional?

No, and the data you posted did not support your allegations of  
performance either.

Chad

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