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

[Danial Thom]

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

> 
> On Jul 13, 2006, at 10:47 AM, Danial Thom
> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > --- "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.
> >
> 
> 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

I doubt you have the capacity to understand the
tests, and as they say,  you can't educate the
woodchucks.

DT

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